Description
In the wide ranging arguments about the fundamental tenets of Marxism nothing has had greater political significance than the theoretical questioning of the central role assigned to class struggle in the process of social transformation.
The Politics of Production demonstrates, brilliantly, the pivotal importance of working class struggles through a rejection of both economistic conceptions of class and notions of the working class as innately revolutionary. This opens the way for an investigation of the political conditions in production that shape the character of working class action. Burawoy theorizes political regimes within production and the way they relate to state politics and then uses this framework to make a comparative analysis of factory regimes under capitalism and socialism.
About the Author
Michael Burawoy is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Book Information
ISBN 9780860918042
Author Michael Burawoy
Format Paperback
Page Count 280
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 346g
The Politics of Production demonstrates, brilliantly, the pivotal importance of working class struggles through a rejection of both economistic conceptions of class and notions of the working class as innately revolutionary. This opens the way for an investigation of the political conditions in production that shape the character of working class action. Burawoy theorizes political regimes within production and the way they relate to state politics and then uses this framework to make a comparative analysis of factory regimes under capitalism and socialism.
About the Author
Michael Burawoy is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Book Information
ISBN 9780860918042
Author Michael Burawoy
Format Paperback
Page Count 280
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 346g
