Beginning of History

Massimo De Angelis is Reader in Political Economy at the University of East London. He is the author of The Beginning of History: Value Struggles and Global Capital (Pluto, 2006), Keynesianism, and Social Conflict and Political Economy (2000). He is editor of the web journal The Commoner.

• List of FiguresList of Tables and BoxesPreface 1. The Beginning of History Part I: Orientations: Co-production of Livelihoods as Contested Terrain2. Value Struggles 3. Capital as a Social Force 4. With No Limits 5. Production and Reproduction 6. Production, Reproduction and Global Loops Part II: Global Loops: Some Explorations on the Contemporary Work Machine7 Enclosures and Disciplinary Integration 8. Global Loops 9. The Global Work Machine Part III: Context, Contest and Text: Discourses and Their Clashing Practices10. Marx and the Enclosures we Face 11. Enclosures with No Limits 12. The ‘Law of Value,’ Immaterial Labour, and the ‘Centre' of Power13. The Valuing and Measuring of Capital 14. Market Freedom and the Prison: Hayek and Bentham 15. The Fractal Panopticon and Ubiquitous Revolution Part IV: ‘By Asking Questions we Walk’: The Problematics of Decoupling16. The ‘Outside’17. Commons NotesReferences Other Web ResourcesIndex

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