Capitalist Development and Class Capacities: Marxist Theory and Union Organization

by Jerry Lembcke

This thought-provoking study argues for a restoration of the classical Marxist position linking the development process, class formation, and class capacities; in practical terms it argues for a restoration of strategies premised on a dialectical understanding of capitalism that sees the process of proletarianization as a capacity-enhancing one rather than a capacity-eroding one. Lembcke adopts Therborn's position that the fundamental power resource...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313262098
• ISBN13: 9780313262098
• Release Date: October 1988
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"