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Marx in the Field is a unique edited collection illustrating the relevance of Marxian methods to study contemporary capitalism and the global development process. Essays in the collection bring Marx 'to the field' in three ways. They illustrate how Marxian categories can be concretely deployed for field research in the global economy, they analyse how these categories may be adapted during fieldwork and they discuss data collection methods supporting Marxian analysis, including during COVID-19 times.
List of contents
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Chapter One Introduction: Marx's Field as Our Global Present, Alessandra Mezzadri; Chapter Two Into the Field with Marx: Some Observations on Researching Class, Henry Bernstein; Chapter Three Marx's Merchants' Capital: Researching Agrarian Markets in Contemporary India, Barbara Harriss-White; Chapter Four The Ties That Divide: Marx's Fractions of Capital and Class Analysis in/ for the Global South, Muhammad Ali Jan; Chapter Five Marx in the Sweatshop: Exploitation and Social Reproduction in a Garment Factory Called India, Alessandra Mezzadri; Chapter Six Thinking about Capital and Class in the Gulf Arab States, Adam Hanieh; Chapter Seven Marx on the Bourse: Coffee and the Intersecting/Integrated Circuits of Capital, Susan Newman; Chapter Eight Learning Marx by Doing: Class Analysis in an Emerging Zone of Global Horticulture, Benjamin Selwyn; Chapter Nine Understanding Labour Relations and Struggles in India through Marx's Method, Satoshi Miyamura; Chapter Ten Investigating Class Relations in Rural South Africa: Marx's 'Rich Totality of Many Determinations', Farai Mtero, Brittany Bunce, Ben Cousins, Alex Dubb and Donna Hornby; Chapter Eleven From Marx's 'Double Freedom' to 'Degrees of Unfreedom': Methodological Insights from the Study of Uzbekistan's Agrarian Labour, Lorena Lombardozzi; Chapter Twelve The Labour Process and Health through the Lens of Marx's Historical Materialism, Tania Toffanin; Chapter Thirteen Marx and the Poor's Nourishment: Diets in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa, Sara Stevano; Chapter Fourteen Marx In Utero: A Workers' Inquiry of the In/Visible Labours of Reproduction in the Surrogacy Industry, Sigrid Vertommen; Chapter Fifteen Marx, the Chief, the Prisoner and the Refugee, Gavin Capps, Genevieve LeBaron and Paolo Novak in Conversation with Alessandra Mezzadri; Chapter Sixteen Postcolonial Marxism and the 'Cyber-Field' in COVID Times: On Labour Becoming 'Working Class', Subir Sinha; Notes on Contributors; Index.
About the author
Alessandra Mezzadri is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at SOAS. She is the author of
The Sweatshop Regime: Labouring Bodies, Exploitation and Garments 'Made in India'.
