Class Matters: Inequality and Exploitation in 21st Century Britain with Charles Umney, Barbara Samaluk and Richard Seymour
Class Matters: Inequality and Exploitation in 21st Century Britain with Charles Umney, Barbara Samaluk and Richard Seymour
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Our guests bring Marxist analysis out of the 19th century textiles mill, and into the call centres, office blocks and fast food chains of modern Britain, to reassert how core Marxist concepts are vital to understanding increasing pay inequality, decreasing job security, increasing routinisation and managerial control of the labour process.
Synopsis
Social class remains a fundamental presence in British life in the twenty-first century. It is woven into the very fabric of social and political discourse, undiminished by the end of mass industry; unaugmented despite the ascendancy of 'ordinary working people' and other substitute phrases. Absent from this landscape, however, is any compelling Marxist expression or analysis of class.
In Class Matters, Charles Umney brings Marxist analysis out of the 19th century textiles mill, and into the call centres, office blocks and fast food chains of modern Britain. He shows how core Marxist concepts are vital to understanding increasing pay inequality, decreasing job security, increasing routinisation and managerial control of the labour process.
Providing a critical analysis of competing perspectives, Umney argues that class must be understood as a dynamic and exploitative process integral to capitalism - rather than a descriptive categorisation - in order for us to better understand the gains capital has made at the expense of labour over the last four decades.
Reviews
'A sophisticated answer to impoverished sociologies and cheap media cliches ... A sharp and deeply necessary book' - Richard Seymour, author of Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics (Verso, 2017).
'Charles Umney presents a powerful and nuanced alternative narrative driven by Marxist political economy. With a keen eye for irony, paradox, and the absurd, he analyses work, politics, and technology in capitalist societies. This is a witty and wise antidote to the mainstream diagnoses of our times' - Professor Ian Greer, Cornell University
'By reinstating the importance of Marxist analysis for understanding the relationship between class and social inequality in 21st century Britain, Charles Umney has written a highly cogent and perspicacious account of the formation of contemporary inequality and exploitation... a vital source' - Professor Paul Stewart, former editor of Work, Employment and Society
About the Speakers
Charles Umney is a Lecturer at the University of Leeds. He teaches, researches and writes on the subjects of trade unionism, working conditions and employment policy across Europe, and has also published extensively on the topic of working life in live music. He is the author of Class Matters (Pluto, 2018).
Barbara Samaluk is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Human Resources and Organisational Behaviour, University of Greenwich. Through her research projects she has actively cooperated with trade unions and emerging social movements. She has presented papers and organised international workshops and special sessions at international conferences, published book chapters, reports, commentaries and articles in academic journals, such as Work, Employment and Society, Industrial Relations Journal and Ephemera.
Richard Seymour is a writer and broadcaster, activist and owner of the blog Lenin's Tomb. He is the author of books such as The Meaning of David Cameron (2010), Unhitched (2013), and Against Austerity (2014)
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Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Rd, N1 9DY London
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Class Matters: Inequality and Exploitation in 21st Century Britain with Charles Umney, Barbara Samaluk and Richard Seymour
From GBP 3.00