Service workers in the era of monopoly capital : a Marxist analysis of service and retail labour / / Fabian van Onzen

• Autore: Van Onzen Fabian
• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 331.793
• Soggetto topico: Service industries workers; Clerks (Retail trade); Hospitality industry - Employees
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: List of Figures -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Centrality of Service Work in Contemporary Capitalism -- Overview of Book -- Chapter 2: Historical Materialism -- Method of Historical Materialism -- Mode of Production & Social Formation -- Historical Materialism Research -- Chapter 3: Marxism, Class, and the Service Industry -- Marxist Definition of Class -- Two Approaches to Class Analysis -- Main Classes of Capitalist Mode of Production -- The Working Class -- The Bourgeoisie -- The Petty-Bourgeoisie -- Chapter 4: Service Labour and Value Theory -- Marxism, Services, Commodities -- Surplus-Value and Service Workers -- Surplus Value in the Service Industry -- Productive and Unproductive Labour -- Increased Surplus-Value -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Retail and the Circulation of Commodities -- Circulation of Commodities -- Circulation Time and Costs of Circulation -- Production in Circulation -- Consumption Time & Consumption Period -- Chapter 6: Monopoly Capital and Imperialism -- Marx on Commercial Capital -- The Emergence of Monopoly Capital -- Imperialism and Monopoly Capitalism -- Imperialism and the Split in the Bourgeoisie -- Dependency Theory: Centre and Periphery -- Unequal Exchange -- Chapter 7: Two Stages of Production and Realisation -- Stage One: Production of Goods -- (Stage Two: The Realisation of Surplus-Value -- Possibilities for Resistance to Monopoly Capitalism -- Chapter 8: A Marxist Analysis of Outsourcing -- Bidvest-Noonan: A Case Study in Outsourcing -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9: Cleaning Workers and Surplus Value -- Molly Maid: A Case Study -- Conclusion -- Chapter 10: Organizing Retail and Service Workers -- Retail: H&M Workers in Germany -- Cleaners in Struggle -- Exposure Campaigns and Workers Power -- Conclusion -- Chapter 11: Service, Retail and Transport Under Socialism -- What is Socialism? -- Workers Power -- Socialist Mode of Production -- Socialist Planning -- Food Consumption Under Socialism -- Socialist Integration and Retail Labour Under Socialism -- Residential Cleaning Under Socialism -- Cleaning Outside the Home -- Transportation Under Socialism -- Conclusion -- Chapter 12: Afterword -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Service Workers in the Era of Monopoly Capital , Fabian van Onzen uses Marxist theory to analyse the process by which service and retail workers are exploited by the capitalist class. His analysis takes us through the primary concepts of Marxism-surplus-value, commodity form, etc.-and demonstrates their relevance for understanding the service industry. The book demonstrates that service and retail workers-shop employees, cleaners, hospitality workers-- are integral to the capitalist system and have significant power to transform society if organised properly. Van Onzen argues that the key to ending the exploitation of service workers is through the socialist transformation of society. The book contains an examination of what service work will be like under socialism and provides examples of how former socialist countries changed the nature of service labour. Service Workers in the Era of Monopoly Capital is an important addition to Marxist theory, which is still somewhat lacking in detailed accounts of the service and retail industry.
• Titolo autorizzato: Service workers in the era of monopoly capital
• ISBN: 90-04-46962-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824270103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in critical social sciences ; ; Volume 202.