Re: new book announcement

[Michael Pugliese <debsian@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

   Blurbed by Doug.
Michael Pugliese

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>Subject: [PEN-L:15683] new book announcement


> 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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