Chapter 4 – Of Ants and Steelworkers: Capital as Labour

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures viii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Abbreviations x
6. Introduction: Brazilian Steel Town and Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional 1
7. Chapter 1 – Capital Enclosures, Labour Abstraction and the Struggle over Value Forms 33
8. Chapter 2 – Cyclopes at Work Capital as Technology 66
9. Chapter 3 – Old and New Land Questions: Capital as Land 118
10. Chapter 4 – Of Ants and Steelworkers: Capital as Labour 162
11. Chapter 5 – Capital as Money and the Invention of People’s Capitalism 211
12. Chapter 6 – Labour as Commons 235
13. Conclusion: Towards an Anthropology of Uneven and Combined Development 278
14. References 291
15. Index 307