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Some questions about work, labour, agency and class in Jason Moore’s capitalist world-ecology

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Published/Copyright: October 17, 2017
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Abstract

This brief paper suggests some puzzles, lacunae and questions concerning four of the key terms in Jason Moore’s Capitalism in the Web of Life: work, labour, agency and class. There are connections between the issues identified, especially in relation to a ‘stereotypical’ notion of ‘fully’ proletarian labour deployed by Moore, agency in the ‘work’ of human and non-human natures, and questions of class and class struggle.

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Published Online: 2017-10-17
Published in Print: 2017-10-10

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