Labour, Nature, Value

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André Gorz between Marxism and Degrowth

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Through an original reinterpretation of André Gorz's work Emanuele Leonardi stages the fundamental encounter between degrowth and Marxism, namely a programmatic horizon for the socio-ecological conflicts that are proliferating on a global scale, aimed at reducing pressure on the biosphere (shrinking social metabolism) and at the ever-wider diffusion of care activities and knowledge production (multiplication of negentropic work). A veritable strategy for climate justice movements around the world.The book poses a key question: How was it possible for ecological limits to be transformed from constraints on development (as they looked like in 1970s) into putative business opportunities (as sustainable finance postulates)? From pure costs for companies to foundation of the green economy, i.e. a new strategy of capitalist accumulation in the era of global warming?A central figure in exploring this question from the perspective of a labour-based political ecology is militant communist André Gorz - editor of Les Temps Modernes, journalist at Le Nouvel observateur and ruthless critic of cognitive capitalism.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-07-28
Mått140 x 210 x undefined mm
Vikt350 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor224
FörlagVerso Books
ISBN9781804298855

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Preface to the English EditionIntroductionI. Political Ecology as MethodAnalytical Premises and New Political Stakes of Social Transformation1. The divorce between wealth and value2. André Gorz's political ecology3. Further considerations: the concept of nature, the theoretical status of the theory of value, and class compositionII. Nature in Classical Political Economy and Its CritiquePrimitive Accumulation, Valorisation and Abstract Social Nature1. Marx: nature as capital2. Nature and political economy3. Moore: abstract social natureIII. An Entropic DeviceThe Rise of the Labour-Nature-Value Nexus from Fossil Capitalism to the Fordist Pact1. Resisting value theory: struggles against and within valorisation2. The 'classic' labour-nature-value nexus as entropic deviceIV. The Twofold Crisis of the 'Classic' Labour-Nature-Value NexusSocial Struggles and Physical Limits to Growth at the Root of the First Oil Shock (1968-1973)1. Gorz's theory of the twofold crisis (1968-73)2. The environmental causes of the twofold crisis: the physical limits to growth3. The social causes of the twofold crisis: feminist revolution and liberation of work / liberation from labourV. Nature as a Direct Element of ValorisationCognitive Labour and Financialization in the Green Economy1. Ecology and class composition2. Cognitive capitalism and the becoming productive of social reproduction3. Financialisation of the economy and ecological crisis4. Green Economy: exploitation and manipulation of cognitive labour in biomimicryVI. For a Critique of Carbon MarketsHistorical and Economic Notes on the Peculiar Commodification of the Climate1. Carbon Trading in actu: the Kyoto Protocol (1997)2. Productive failure of carbon markets and climate rent3. How to produce a Certified Emissions Reduction: in the lab of carbon commoditiesVII. Between Marxism and DegrowthShrinking Social Metabolism and Liberating Negentropic WorkConclusion