Marx, Globalisation and the Reserve Army of Labour

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. The Politics of Historical Thinking v
3. Preface vii
4. Table of Contents ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One: Marxism and the Intellectual Production of History
7. Smoke from the Volcanoes of Marxism? 19
8. The Postwar Marxist Milieu of Microhistory 37
9. Antonio Gramsci’s Moment of Arrival in India 65
10. The Science Problem in Marxism 89
11. Part Two: Marxism and the Pre-Modern Worlds of the Near East and North Africa
12. Marxist Historiography and the Ancient Near East 121
13. Maḥmūd Ismāʿīl and his Historical-Materialist Approach to the History of the Medieval Islamic World 147
14. Part Three: Marxism and the Beginnings of Western Capitalism
15. Reading Marx in the Divergence Debate 173
16. The Renewal of Marxist Historiography through the Study of Enslavement 241
17. Part Four: Marxism and the Study of the Contemporary World
18. Farewell to Class? 265
19. Marx and Today’s Global History 291
20. Marx, Globalisation and the Reserve Army of Labour 309
21. Biographical Notes 323
22. Index 327