Gavin G. Smith
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Si tuviésemos que resumir en una frase el contenido del libro, diríamos que es la narración de la transformación profunda de la cotidianidad sociolaboral del siglo xx. En él se analiza, a través de la actividad laboral y de las relaciones sociales de producción, el paso de la supeditación del jornalero agrícola a la ansiada independencia del trabajador industrial.
Intellectuals and (Counter-) Politics
Contemporary forms of capitalism and the state require close analytic attention to reveal the conditions of possibility for effective counter-politics. On the other hand the practice of collective politics needs to be studied through historical ethnography if we are to understand what might make people’s actions effective. This book suggests a research agenda designed to maximize the political leverage of ordinary people faced with ever more remote states and technologies that make capitalism increasingly rapacious. Gavin Smith opens and closes this series of interlinked essays by proposing a concise framework for untangling what he calls “the society of capital” and subsequently a potentially controversial way of seeing its contemporary features. This book tackles the political conundrums of our times and asks what roles intellectuals might play therein.
