Labor
Work, labor organization, class formation, unions, and the labor process.
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- Work, Working class
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Analysis and articles
The Gig Economy: A Marxist Analysis of Wages and Work
An essay applying Marx's analysis of wages and competition to app-based work, including Uber and DoorDash.
Artificial Intelligence and Work: A Marxist Analysis
A Marxist analysis of artificial intelligence, ownership, machine productivity, and work, drawing on Marx and Engels.
Learning
Smith: Division of Labor, Value, and Wages
Module 1 of Capital and Political Economy: reconstruct Smith's account of specialization, exchange, value, and wages before examining the tensions Marx inherits.
From Money to Capital and Surplus Value
Module 4 of Capital and Political Economy: reconstruct the movement from money to capital and locate surplus value in the purchase and use of labor power.
Constant Capital, Surplus Value, and the Working Day
Module 5 of Capital and Political Economy: distinguish constant and variable capital, calculate the rate of surplus value, and analyze the working day as a contested relation.
Labor Power, Wages, and the Wage Relation
Week 3 of Marxism Fundamentals: diagram the wage exchange, distinguish labor power from labor, and explain why wage labor and capital reproduce one another.
Surplus Value and the Wage Struggle
Week 4 of Marxism Fundamentals: connect value, labor power, surplus value, profit, and the strategic importance and limits of wage struggles.
Labor and Socialist History in the United States
Follow American labor from emancipation and agrarian revolt through industrial unionism, socialism, the CIO, and neoliberal decline.
Marxist Feminism: Foundations of Gender and Class
A materialist introduction to the relationship between gender oppression, the monogamous family, private property, and class struggle.
Marxist Feminism: Social Reproduction Theory
Analyze how capitalism depends upon the unpaid reproduction of labor power, the 1970s domestic labor debate, and the development of unitary social reproduction theory.
Race, Reconstruction, and Class
Examine slavery, emancipation, Reconstruction, racial ideology, labor, citizenship, and the material reproduction of hierarchy.
Technology, Automation, and Artificial Intelligence
Analyze technology as a social relation shaped by ownership, management, skill, labor control, public investment, and political choice.
Library and reference
Capital, Volume I
Marx's systematic critique of capitalist production, from the commodity and value-form through exploitation, accumulation, and primitive accumulation.
Manifesto of the Communist Party
Marx and Engels' concise account of class struggle, capitalist development, proletarian politics, and the communist program.
The Civil War in France
Marx's address on the Paris Commune, the class character of the state, and the political form of working-class emancipation.
Value, Price and Profit
Marx's compact explanation of value, labor power, surplus value, profit, wages, and the strategic importance and limits of trade-union struggle.
Wage Labour and Capital
A concise introduction to wages, labor power, capital, competition, and the antagonistic relation between wage labor and capital.
Wage Labour and Capital
A concise introduction to wages, labor power, capital, competition, and the antagonistic relation between wage labor and capital.
Manifesto of the Communist Party
Marx and Engels' concise account of class struggle, capitalist development, proletarian politics, and the communist program.
Value, Price and Profit
Marx's compact explanation of value, labor power, surplus value, profit, wages, and the strategic importance and limits of trade-union struggle.
Capital, Volume I
Marx's systematic critique of capitalist production, from the commodity and value-form through exploitation, accumulation, and primitive accumulation.
The Civil War in France
Marx's address on the Paris Commune, the class character of the state, and the political form of working-class emancipation.