State Capital And Labour

This collection of essays offers a comprehensive examination of the working class experience in British Columbia and contains essential background knowledge for an understanding of contemporary relations between government, labour, and employees. It treats workers' relationship to the province's resource base, the economic role of the state, the structure of capitalism, the labour market and the influence of ethnicity and race on class relations.

An investigation into the changing fortunes of working people in a capitalist society. It proposes that the status of labour is "fixed" by the interplay of the State's demand for loyal, patriotic citizens and capital's demand for obedient, loyal workers.

This work concerns transformation processes in labour relations and in production systems in the 1980s. It describes new industrial and occupational patterns, as well as technological progress and the implications of the end of the Welfare State. Old practices are assessed.

An investigation into the changing fortunes of working people in a capitalist society. It proposes that the status of labour is fixed by the interplay of the State's demand for loyal, patriotic citizens and capital's demand for obedient, loyal workers.

Historical study of state intervention, industrial management, labour relations and the emergence of a labour movement among gold miners in South Africa R from 1902 to 1939 - covers working conditions, strikes, racial segregation in employment and trade unionization against a background of political leadership esp. That of Jan Smuts, the growing economic role of the mines, and conflict of political ideology; gives overview of trends in the 1970s, including wage rates of black and White miners. Bibliography, statistical tables.

Contrary to the widely-held view that the East Asian "developmental state" is neutral in terms of the relationship between capital and labour – a benign co-operation between state officials and businessmen to organise economic development – this book argues that in fact the developmental state exists to promote the interests of capital over the interests of labour. Dae-oup Chang asserts that there has been a deliberate mystification concerning the reality of this process. This book presents a radical, Marxist critique of state development theory. It both explains the exploitative functions of the state, looking at the emergence of the particular form of capitalist state in the context of the formation and reproduction of capital relations in Korea; and also traces the origin and development of the process of mystification whereby the capitalist state has been characterised as the autonomous developmental state. In addition, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of labour relations in Korea both before and after the 1998 financial crisis, demonstrating continuing capital relations, state transition and class struggle.

The book is sufficiently specific, in terms of concrete actions and responses, to provide a useful sourcebook for activists and workers in factories and labour organizations. It is also comprehensive enough, in its broad theoretical and political framework, to be a key reference for academics and other writers, analysts and researchers in the labour and labour studies fields.