The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx

Matt Vidal is Reader in Sociology and Political Economy, Loughborough University London, Institute of International Management. His work has been published in Contexts, Critical Sociology, Organization Studies, Socio-Economic Review, Work, Employment & Society, and others. He is author (with David Kusnet) of Organizing Prosperity (EPI) and editor (with Marco Hauptmeier) of Comparative Political Economy of Work (Palgrave). Matt is working on a book, under contract with Oxford University Press: Management Divided: Contradictions of labor management in American capitalism. He is editor-in-chief of "Work in Progress," a public sociology blog of the American Sociological Association on the economy, work and inequality. Tony Smith is the author of 6 books and over eighty articles on Marx, the critical theory of technology, and issues in normative social theory. His works include The Logic of Marx's Capital: Replies to Hegelian Criticisms; Globalisation: A Systematic Marxian Account; and Beyond Liberal Egalitarianism: Marxism and Normative Social Theory in the Twenty-First Century. Tomás Rotta is Senior Lecturer in Economics in the International Business & Economics department at the University of Greenwich in London, UK, and member of the Greenwich Political Economy Research Center (GPERC). He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA, an MS in Economic Development and a BA in Business Management from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He specializes in Political Economy. Paul Prew specializes in Marxist theory and environmental sociology. He has forthcoming chapters summarizing the work of Karl Marx in Reaktion and Routledge Presses and prior publications include the topics of critical pedagogy, perceptions of police misconduct, and the effect of the world-economy on carbon-dioxide emissions. At Minnesota State University, Mankato, he teaches courses in graduate and undergraduate theory, indigeneity and environment, globalization, and introduction to sociology. Dr. Prew is also the treasurer for the Marxist section of the American Sociological Association as well as the local non-profit, Mankato Area Fair Trade Town Association. At his university, he has received the Global Citizen, Diversity Champion, and the Kessel Peacemaker Awards.

• Introduction 1. The Enduring Relevance of Karl MarxPaul Prew, Tomas Rotta, Tony Smith, and Matt Vidal Part I. Foundations2. Historical MaterialismPaul Blackledge 3. Class and Class StruggleHenry Heller4. Forces of Production and Relations of Production David Laibman5. The Eight Steps in Marx's Dialectical MethodBertell Ollman6. Ideology as Alienated SocializationJan Rehmann 7. Marx's Conceptualization of Value in Capital Geert Reuten 8. Value and ClassAlan Freeman 9. MoneyLeda Maria Paulani 10. Capital Andrew Kliman 11. Capital: A Revolutionary Social FormPatrick Murray12. The Grammar of Capital: Wealth in-against-and-beyond ValueJohn Holloway 13. Work and Exploitation in Capitalism: The Labor Process and the Valorization Process Matt Vidal 14. Capital in General and Competition: The Production and Distribution of Surplus-ValueFred Moseley15. Reproduction and Crisis in Capitalist Economies Deepankar Basu 16. The Capitalist State and State PowerBob Jessop 17. Capitalist Social Reproduction: The Contradiction between Production and Social Reproduction under CapitalismMartha E. Gimenez18. Marx, Technology, and the Pathological Future of CapitalismTony Smith 19. Alienation, or Why Capitalism Is Bad for UsDan Swain 20. The Commodification of Knowledge and InformationTomás Rotta and Rodrigo Teixeira Part II. Labor, Class, and Social Divisions 21. Labor Unions and MovementsBarry Eidlin 22. Migration and the Mobility of LaborNicholas De Genova 23. Race, Class, and Revolution in the Twenty-First Century: Lessons from the League of Revolutionary Black WorkersWalda Katz-Fishman and Jerome Scott 24. Nationalism, Class, and Revolution Kevin B. Anderson 25. Hegemony: A Theory of National-Popular Class PoliticsMark McNally Part III. Capitalist States and Spaces26. Capitalist Crises and the StateLeo Panitch and Sam Gindin 27. European "Integration" Magnus Ryner28. The Urbanization of Capital and the Production of Capitalist NaturesErik Swyngedouw Part IV. Accumulation, Crisis, and Class Struggle in the Core Countries29. Stages of Capitalism and Social Structures of Accumulation: A Long ViewTerrence McDonough30. Geriatric Capitalism: Stagnation and Crisis in the Atlantic Postfordist Accumulation RegimeMatt Vidal31. Sociopoiesis: Understanding Crisis in the Capitalist World-System through Complexity SciencesPaul Prew 32. Towards a Marxist Theory of Financialized CapitalismJeff Powell33. Metabolic Rifts and the Ecological CrisisBrett Clark, John Bellamy Foster, and Stefano B. Longo Part V. Accumulation, Crisis, and Class Struggle in the Peripheral and Semi-Peripheral Countries34. Global Capital Accumulation and the Specificity of Latin AmericaGuido Starosta 35. The Unresolved Agrarian Question in South AsiaDebarshi Das 36. Asia and the Shift in Marx's Conception of Revolution and HistoryChun Lin 37. Analyzing the Middle EastGilbert Achcar 38. Primitive Accumulation in Post-Soviet Russia David Mandel Part VI. Alternatives to Capitalism39. Marx's Concept of SocialismPeter Hudis 40. Democratic Socialist PlanningPat Devine41. The Continuing Relevance of the Marxist Tradition for Transcending CapitalismErik Olin Wright

This Oxford handbook serves its stated purpose of providing an entry point into Marxist theory. While the book aims to be accessible to beginners, readers will benefit from prior understanding of economic theories. This collection of empirical research is divided into seven sections that can be read independently. Some of the sections include essay collections such as "Labor, Class, and Social Divisions," "Capitalist States and Spaces," and "Alternatives to Capitalism." The handbook has various points of entry beginning with the table of contents, which receives a detailed walk-through in the introductory chapter. The index is also detailed and thorough (as one would expect from Oxford's authoritative series). If the researching mind finds itself stimulated, each chapter contains extensive citations. This detailed volume provides enough information for readers to make their own decision on whether Marxism still lives.