Marxism, Social Movements and Collective Action

Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
	Why a Marxist Critique of Theories of Collective Action and Social Movements Is Significant?
	The Roads to a Marxist Theory of Class Struggle
		The Legacy of Classical Marxism
		Class Struggle as a Theoretical Object
	Antecedents of a Marxist Critique of Collective Action and Social Movements Theories
	Presentation of the Content in This Volume
	References
Chapter 2: From the Critique of Collective Action Theories to the Study of Political Class Composition
	Introduction
	From the Critique of the Theories on Collective Action to the Development of Dimensions for the Analysis of Processes of Political Class Composition/Decomposition
		Possibilities and Limits
		From Technical Composition to Political Composition: Social Infrastructure, Mobilization and Organization as Process Dimensions
	Conclusions
	References
Chapter 3: Class Formation and Collective Action from a Marxist Perspective
	Introduction
	Background
	Socialisation and Individualisation in Marxism
	The Productive Forces
	The State
	Power, Solidarity and Mobilisation
	Conclusions
	References
Chapter 4: From Mechanisms to Dynamics: How to Embed Social Movement Studies Within Historical Materialism
	Introduction
	Choosing Different Entry Points to Research Social Movements
	Integrating SMS into a Historical Materialist Framework
		A Dialectical Method
		Contradictions and the Cognitive Dynamic
		The Social Whole and the Environmental Dynamic
		The Organizational Dynamic
	Adding a New Dynamic: The Institutional Dynamic and the Capitalist State
	By Way of Conclusion: Conceptualizing Social Movements Within a Theory of Capitalism
	References
Chapter 5: The Denial of Social Classes in the Theory of Collective Contentious Action
	An Example: 1848
	Marx and the Theory of Collective Action
	Marx’s and Engels’ Concept of Social Classes
	Society Versus Individuals
	Form and Content
	Individuals and Class Interest
	References
Chapter 6: On Dignity: Reflections on the Rationality of Insurrectional Actions
	Introduction
	From Consciousness to Action (and Vice Versa)
	On Collective Action (and Its Rationality)
	Some Concluding Remarks
	References
Chapter 7: A Marxist Perspective on Workers’ Collective Action
	Introduction
	Mobilization Theory: A Critique
	A Return to the Labour Process
	Cooperation, Solidarity and Workers’ Collective Action
	Conclusions and Implications for Empirical Analysis
	References
Chapter 8: Work, Reproduction and Informality: Challenges for a Marxist Politics of Labour
	Informal Labour
	Reproductive Labour
	Bringing the Concepts Together
	References
Chapter 9: Gramsci, Theoretician of Political Subjectivation: The Subalternity–Autonomy–Hegemony Triad
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	References
Chapter 10: Surplus Populations, Working-Class Struggles and Crises of Capitalism: A World-Historical Materialist Reconceptualization
	Introduction
	Dynamics of Historical Capitalism and Particularities of Labor Unrest: An Empirical Paradox?
	Surplus Populations and Struggles for Survival Within the Interstices of Capitalism
	Legitimacy Crisis of Capitalism and Social Rebellions of the Surplus Populations
		Protests Against Unemployment, 1850–2016
		Stagnant Surplus Protests for the Reproduction of Livelihood
		Race, Violence, and Crime
		Riot-Strike-Riot?
	Capitalist Expansion, Dispossession, and Struggles of Latent Surplus Populations
		Uneven Development and Formal Subsumption
		Semi-Proletarianization as the Dominant Mode
		Labor Aristocracies, Middle Classes, and Latency Ex-Post
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 11: Being on the Side of Workers: On the Normative Foundations of Global Labour Studies
	The Normative Gap in Global Labour Studies
	Problematising Value Freedom
	Class Domination and the Suffering of Workers
	Neoliberalism and the Imperative of the Market
	Trade Unionism and Social Critique
	Qualified Ethical Naturalism as a Normative Foundation
	The Normative-Critical Subtext of Global Labour Studies
	Analytical and Political Implications
	References
Chapter 12: About the Old and New “Class Maps”: Notes on the Formation of the Working Class
	Introduction
	Relations Between Class and Labour: The Mobilisation of Social Labour
	Relations Between Class and the Notions of Commodification, Exploitation and Dispossession
	Notes on Processes of Working-Class Formation in Latin America
	Conclusions
	References
Index