Capitalism And Class Power

Author : Cox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1415209677

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Capitalism and Class Power by Cox Pdf

Author : Ronald W. Cox
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004686694

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Capitalism and Class Power by Ronald W. Cox Pdf

How do corporations use their instrumental and structural power within markets and states to advance their policy agendas? Capitalism and Class Power examines corporate power through chapters on the U.S. military industrial complex, the rise of billionaire wealth in the U.S., the role of a transnational investment bloc in U.S.–Saudi relations, the rise of global disinformation firms, Canadian imperialism in the English-speaking Caribbean, the power of an EU corporate bloc in Caribbean trade agreements, the relationship between capitalism and poverty in rich capitalist countries, and the relationship between “neoliberalism” and capitalism. Professor Cox concludes the volume with reflections on the importance of corporate power research to achieving systemic change. Contributors are: Melissa Boissiere, Aram Eisenschitz, Jamie A. Gough, Adam D. Hernandez, Tamanisha J. John, Mazaher Koruzhde, Rob Piper and Bryant William Sculos. Ronald W. Cox is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University. He has published six books on corporate power in the global economy and is editor of the open access online journal Class, Race and Corporate Power.

Author : Efe Can Gürcan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000504989

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Imperialism after the Neoliberal Turn by Efe Can Gürcan Pdf

This book explores how imperialism has been evolving in the neoliberal era, with the aim of providing a systematic and integrative understanding of the inner dynamics and vulnerabilities of the contemporary imperialist system. Asking how it has been possible to sustain an imperialist system that fails to address the problems of unemployment, declining standards of living and globalizing conflicts, the author draws upon theoretical and empirical contributions from the current literature to further recent efforts at re-conceptualizing imperialism under the conditions of neoliberal globalization and advances a critique of the school of transnationalism in global political economy. The author puts forward that contemporary imperialism rests on a triangular structure composed of (a) economic imperialism, which is driven by a neoliberal logic of maximizing monopoly profits at massive societal costs; (b) military imperialism, which is shaped by the neoliberal transformation of the US military-industrial complex with the rise of private armies, the globalization of narcocapitalism, and the weaponization of Islamist terrorism and ethno-religious divides; and (c) cultural imperialism, which is led by the media- and nonprofit-corporate complexes, having weaponized the media and civil society in manufacturing popular consent. The book’s arguments are also extended to the current challenges of imperialism embodied in the rise of the BRICS, post-hegemonic forms of regional cooperation, and global popular resistance. As such, it will appeal to scholars of politics and sociology with interests in globalization, imperialism, capitalism, and global power.

Author : Ralph Miliband
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015005770402

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Class Power and State Power by Ralph Miliband Pdf

Author : Susanne Soederberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135249434

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Corporate Power and Ownership in Contemporary Capitalism by Susanne Soederberg Pdf

This book examines neoliberal corporate power within the context of the American political economy and its relationship to emerging market economies in order to understand the global dimensions of the corporate-financial binary.

Author : William K. Carroll,J.P. Sapinski
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06T00:00:00Z
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781773630816

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Organizing the 1% by William K. Carroll,J.P. Sapinski Pdf

Canada is ruled by an organized minority of the 1%, a class of corporate owners, managers and bankers who amass wealth by controlling the large corporations at the core of the economy. But corporate power also reaches into civil society and politics in many ways that greatly constrain democracy. In Organizing the 1%, William K. Carroll and J.P. Sapinski provide a unique, evidence-based perspective on corporate power in Canada and illustrate the various ways it directs and shapes economic, political and cultural life. A highly accessible introduction to Marxist political economy, Carroll and Sapinski delve into the capitalist economic system at the root of corporate wealth and power and analyze the ways the capitalist class dominates over contemporary Canadian society. The authors illustrate how corporate power perpetuates inequality and injustice. They follow the development of corporate power through Canadian history, from its roots in settler-colonialism and the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their land, to the concentration of capital into giant corporations in the late nineteenth century. More recently, capitalist globalization and the consolidation of a market-driven neoliberal regime have dramatically enhanced corporate power while exacerbating social and economic inequalities. The result is our current oligarchic order, where power is concentrated in a few corporations that are controlled by the super-wealthy and organized into a cohesive corporate elite. Finally, Carroll and Sapinski offer possibilities for placing corporate power where it actually belongs: in the dustbin of history.

Author : Erik Olin Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073096781

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Working Class Power, Capitalist Class Interests, and Class Compromise by Erik Olin Wright Pdf

Author : György Konrád,Iván Szelényi
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015002779075

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The Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power by György Konrád,Iván Szelényi Pdf

Author : Maurice Zeitlin,Richard Earl Ratcliff
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400859535

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Landlords and Capitalists by Maurice Zeitlin,Richard Earl Ratcliff Pdf

In 1974, Maurice Zeitlin published a seminal article in The American Journal of Sociology, criticizing managerial theory and evidence, which ended one era in the analysis of the large corporation's ownership and control and began a new one. He called for research on the capitalist class that would reveal its inner structure--particularly the interaction of family ties, property, and business leadership in the large corporation. But, despite the subsequent blossoming of studies of intercorporate and class power, no one else has yet done the systematic empirical analysis he outlined. This work is thus the first to explore the full panoply of intraclass relations--interorganizational, kinship, economic, and political--within an actually existing dominant class. Theoretically sensitive, methodologically precise, and historically grounded, it aims to fill in the blank spots in our knowledge about how "economic classes" become "social classes" and how the latter in turn connect with other social forms. This work is a sustained empirical analysis of Chile's dominant class. But it does more than reveal that class's specific internal structure; it also provides a coherent theory of the inner relations constituting any dominant class in a highly concentrated capitalist economy, a methodological paradigm, and an exemplary body of findings, which can closely guide the study of other dominant classes, especially in the "advanced" societies of the West. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Jan Lust
Publisher : Springer
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319914039

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Capitalism, Class and Revolution in Peru, 1980-2016 by Jan Lust Pdf

In an analysis of political, economic, and social development in Peru in the years between 1980 and 2016, this book explores the failure of the socialist Left to realize its project of revolutionary social transformation. Based on extensive interviews with leading cadres in the struggle for revolutionary change and a profound review of documents from the principal socialist organizations of the 1980s and 1990s, the volume reveals that the socialist Left did not fully comprehend the deep political and social implications of changes to the country’s class structures. As such, the Left failed to develop and implement adequate strategic and tactical responses to the processes that eroded its political and social bases in the 1980s and 1990s, ultimately leading to its loss of social and political power. Lust concludes that the continued political and organizational agony of the Peruvian socialist Left and the hegemony of neoliberalism in society is a product of the dialectical interplay between the objective and subjective conditions that determine Peruvian capitalist development.

Author : Nicos Poulantzas
Publisher : Verso
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036278500

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Classes in Contemporary Capitalism by Nicos Poulantzas Pdf

Nicos Poulantzas’s third major work is a pioneering survey of some of the most fundamental, yet least studied, aspects of the class structure of advanced capitalist societies today. The book starts with a general theoretical essay that for the first time seriously explores the distinction between the “agents” and “positions” of capitalist relations of production, and seeks to avoid the typical errors of either functionalism or historicism. It also provides a polemical reconsideration of the problem of the “nation state” as a political unit today, and its relationship to the internationalization of capital. Finally, and most originally, Poulantzas develops a long and powerful analysis of the much-abused concept of the “petty-bourgeoisie.” In this, he scrupulously distinguishes between the “traditional” categories of petty-bourgeoisie—shopkeepers, artisans, small peasants—and the “new” categories of clerical workers, supervisors, and salaried personnel in modern industry and commerce. At the same time he demonstrates the reasons why a unitary conceptualization of their class position is possible. The difficult question of the definition of “productive” and “unproductive” labor within Marx’s own account of the capitalist mode of production is subjected to a novel and radical reinterpretation. The political oscillations peculiar to each form of petty-bourgeoisie and especially their characteristic reactions to the industrial proletariat, are cogently assessed. Poulantzas ends his work with a reminder that the actions and options of the petty-bourgeoisie are critical to any successful struggle by the working class, which must secure the alliance of important sections of the petty-bourgeoisie if the fateful experience of Chile is not to recur elsewhere tomorrow. Combining empirical and theoretical materials throughout, Classes in Contemporary Capitalism represents a notable achievement in the development of Marxist social science and political thought.

Author : Robert R. Alford,Roger Friedland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1985-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521316359

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Powers of Theory by Robert R. Alford,Roger Friedland Pdf

An evaluation of different theories of the nature of the state in capitalist democracies.

Author : Manuel Castells
Publisher : MacMillan
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : UCSC:32106015341404

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City, Class, and Power by Manuel Castells Pdf

Author : Göran Therborn
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786630117

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What Does the Ruling Class Do When it Rules? by Göran Therborn Pdf

The intricate practices of the elite and how they maintain their dominance. In his new book, Göran Therborn – author of the now standard comparative work on classical sociology and historical materialism, Science, Class and Society – looks at successive state structures in an arrestingly fresh perspective. Therborn uses the formal categories of modern system analysis – input mechanisms, processes of transformation, output flows – to advance a substantive Marxist analysis of state power and state apparatuses. His account of these is comparative in the most far-reaching historical sense: its object is nothing less than the construction of systematic typology of the differences between the feudal state, the capitalist state and the socialist state. Therborn ranges from the monarchies of mediaeval Europe through the bourgeois democracies of the west in the 20th century to the contemporary regimes in Russia, Eastern Europe and China. The book ends with a major analytic survey of the strategies of working class parties for socialism, from the Second International to the Comintern to Eurocommunism, that applies the structural findings of Therborn’s enquiry in the ‘Future as History’. Written with lucidity and economy, What Does the Ruling Class Do when it Rules? represents a remarkable sociological and political synthesis.

Author : Gérard Duménil,Dominique Lévy
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 0745337538

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Managerial Capitalism by Gérard Duménil,Dominique Lévy Pdf

An innovative Marxist analysis of capitalism's transition to a new mode of production: 'Managerialism'