Labor of Dionysus: A Critique of the State-Form Volume 4

by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri

Book Overview

"Labor is the living, form-giving fire", Marx wrote, "it is the transitoriness of things, their temporality, as their transformation by living time". How is it then, this book asks, that labour, with all its life-affirming potential, has become the means of capitalist discipline, exploitation, and domination in modern society? The authors pursue this paradox through a systematic analysis of the role of labour in the processes of capitalist production...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816620865
• ISBN13: 9780816620869
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.9"