Charles Umney Livres

Exploring the intricate relationship between markets, labor, and capital, this book delves into how state and capital utilize market mechanisms to control the working class. Greer and Umney provide a thorough analysis of the European political economy, revealing how neoliberal principles affect workers' lives. Through extensive interviews with various stakeholders, they challenge conventional views on market dynamics, highlighting how marketization often compromises individual rights, worker security, and democratic accountability in the pursuit of profit.

Social class remains a fundamental presence in British life in the twenty- first century. It is woven into the very fabric of social and political discourse, undiminished by the end of mass industry; unaugmented despite the ascendancy of 'ordinary working people' and other substitute phrases. Absent from this landscape, however, is any compelling Marxist expression or analysis of class.In Class Matters, Charles Umney brings Marxist analysis out of the 19th century textiles mill, and into the call centres, office blocks and fast food chains of modern Britain. He shows how core Marxist concepts are vital to understanding increasing pay inequality, decreasing job security, increasing routinisation and managerial control of the labour process. Providing a critical analysis of competing perspectives, Umney argues that class must be understood as a dynamic and exploitative process integral to capitalism - rather than a descriptive categorisation - in order for us to better understand the gains capital has made at the expense of labour over the last four decades.