Managerial Capitalism
Ownership, Management and the Coming New Mode of Production
In the post war years as social democracy reigned, managers tended to form compromises with workers. However, under neoliberalism, allegiances have shifted. Today, a new alliance is forming between managers and capitalist owners, changing the nature of the hierarchy of power under capitalism. Additionally, the authors argue, this is happening much faster and universally than was previously thought.
By applying Marx's basic concepts to the reality of the system today, through the use of extensive data sets as well as firmly rooting the argument in its historical context, Managerial Capitalism updates Marxism for the twenty-first century, through showing how the modes of production today are shaped by a new class, that must be understood if it is to be challenged.
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Gerard Duménil is an economist and former Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. He is a member of the editorial board of Actuel Marx. He is the co-author with Dominique Levy of Managerial Capitalism (Pluto, 2018), and The Crisis of Neoliberalism (HUP, 2014).
Dominique Lévy is an economist and former Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. He is a member of the editorial board of Actuel Marx and co-author of Managerial Capitalism (Pluto, 2018) and The Crisis of Neoliberalism (HUP, 2014).
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Introduction
1. An overview
PART I: MODES OF PRODUCTION AND CLASSES
2. Patterns of income distribution
3. Marx’s theory of history
4. Managers in Marx’s analysis
5. Sociality and class societies
6. Managerialism and managerial capitalism
7. A wealth of alternative interpretations
8. Hybridization as analytical challenge
PART II: TWELVE DECADES OF MANAGERIAL CAPITALISM
9. Varying trends of inequality
10. The sequence of social orders
11. Class and imperial power structures
12. The politics of social change
13. Tendencies, crises, and struggles
PART III: PAST ATTEMPTS AT THE INFLECTION OF HISTORICAL DYNAMICS
14. Utopian capitalism in bourgeois revolutions
15. Utopian socialism and anarchism
16. Self-proclaimed scientific socialism
PART IV: PROSPECTS FOR HUMAN EMANCIPATION WITHIN AND BEYOND MANAGERIALISMS
17. The economics and politics of managerialisms
18. The potential of popular struggle
Notes
Index
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