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[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Re/presenting Class

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

J. K. Gibson-Graham is the pen name of Julie Graham and Katherine
Gibson. Graham is Professor of Geography at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst. Gibson is Senior Fellow of Human
Geography at Australian National University. Stephen A. Resnick
and Richard D. Wolff are both Professors of Economics at the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

RE/PRESENTING CLASS
Essays in Postmodern Marxism
J.K. Gibson-Graham, Stephen Resnick, and Richard Wolff, eds.
Price:
 Paper  (0-8223-2720-1)  $ 18.95
 Cloth  (0-8223-2709-0)  $ 54.95




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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929

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