"Re/presenting Class" is a collection of essays that develops a
poststructuralist Marxian conception of class in order to theorize
the complex contemporary economic terrain. Both building upon and
reconsidering a tradition that Stephen Resnick and Richard
Wolff--two of this volume's editors--began in the late 1980s with
their groundbreaking work "Knowledge and Class, " contributors aim
to correct previous research that has largely failed to place class
as a central theme in economic analysis. Suggesting the possibility
of a new politics of the economy, the collection as a whole focuses
on the diversity and contingency of economic relations and
processes.
Investigating a wide range of cases, the essays illuminate, for
instance, the organizational and cultural means by which unmeasured
surpluses--labor that occurs outside the formal workplace' such as
domestic work--are distributed and put to use. Editors Resnick and
Wolff, along with J. K. Gibson-Graham, bring theoretical essays
together with those that apply their vision to topics ranging from
the Iranian Revolution to sharecropping in the Mississippi Delta to
the struggle over the ownership of teaching materials at a liberal
arts college. Rather than understanding class as an element of an
overarching capitalist social structure, the contributors--from
radical and cultural economists to social scientists--define class
in terms of diverse and ongoing processes of producing,
appropriating, and distributing surplus labor and view class
identities as multiple, changing, and interacting with other
aspects of identity in contingent and unpredictable ways.
"Re/presenting Class" will appeal primarily to scholars of Marxism
and political economy.
"Contributors." Carole Biewener, Anjan Chakrabarti, Stephen
Cullenberg, Fred Curtis, Satyananda Gabriel, J. K. Gibson-Graham,
Serap Kayatekin, Bruce Norton, Phillip O'Neill, Stephen Resnick,
David Ruccio, Dean Saitta, Andriana Vlachou, Richard Wolff
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