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" There's a lot of talk about 'getting back to class, ' as if all the other things that have concerned social theorists for the last couple of decades were a waste of time. Here's a book that gets back to class a lot wiser for that experience. Even when you don't agree with the contributors, they make you think, and very productively. What more can you ask from a book?"--Doug Henwood, author of "A New Economy"
List of contents
Acknowledgments
1. Toward a Poststructuralist Political Economy / J. K. Gibson-Graham, Stephen Resnick, Richard Wolff
2. Reading Marx for Class / Bruce Norton
3. Toward a New Class Politics of the Enterprise / J. K. Gibson-Graham and Phillip O’Neill
4. Ivy-covered Exploitation: Class, Education, and the Liberal Arts College / Fred Curtis
5. Nature and Class: A Marxian Value Analysis / Andriana Vlachou
6. The Promise of Finance: Banks and Community Development / Carole Biewener
7. “After” Development: Re-imagining Economy and Class / J. K. Gibson-Graham and David Ruccio
8. Development and Class Transition in India / Anjan Chakrabarti and Stephen Cullenberg
9. A Class Analysis of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 / Satyananda Gabriel
10. Sharecropping and Feudal Class Processes in the Postbellum Mississippi Delta / Serap Ayse Kayatekin
11. Communal Class Processes and Precolumbian Social Dynamics / Dean Saitta
12. Struggles in the USSR: Communisms Attempted and Undone / Stephen Resnick and Richard D. Wolff
References
Contributors
Index
About the author
J. K. Gibson-Graham is the pen name of Julie Graham and Katherine Gibson. Graham is Professor of Geography at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Gibson is Senior Fellow of Human Geography at Australian National University.
Stephen A. Resnick is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Richard D. Wolff Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Summary
A collection of essays that develops a poststructuralist Marxist conception of class in order to theorise the complex contemporary economic terrain. Suggesting the possibility of a new politics of the economy, the collection as a whole focuses on the diversity and contingency of economic relations and processes.
