Marketization - How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy (Hardcover)

How do markets function? Who creates, shapes and organizes them? And what do they mean for the relationship between labor and capital? Marketization examines how the state and capital use markets to discipline the working class. Ian Greer and Charles Umney provide a comprehensive overview of the European political economy, from the European Commission to the workplace, to show how neoliberal principles translate into market mechanisms and reshape the lives of workers. Drawing on dozens of conversations with policymakers, administrators, businesses, workers, and trade unionists across many European countries, Greer and Umney unpack marketization. They go beyond liberal theories that see markets as natural forms of economic organization and broad-brush left critiques of neoliberalism, looking behind the scenes in the current European political economy to examine the practicalities of how markets are created and manipulated by employers, policymakers and bureaucrats in pursuit of greater profitability. Far from leading to greater freedom, these processes often override the rights of individuals, degrade the status and security of workers, and undermine democratic accountability.

General

Imprint:	Zed Books Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Autonomy and Automation
Release date:	November 2022
Authors:	Ian Greer • Charles Umney
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-1-913441-45-6
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Work & labour Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Labour economics > General
LSN:	1-913441-45-8
Barcode:	9781913441456

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