In Letters of Blood and Fire: Work, Machines, and the Crisis of Capitalism

by George Caffentzis

Book Overview

Karl Marx remarked that the only way to write about the origins of capitalism is in the letters of blood and fire used to drive workers from the common lands, forests, and waters in the sixteenth century. In this collection of essays, George Caffentzis argues that the same is true for the annals of twenty-first-century capitalism. Information technology, immaterial production, financialization, and globalization have been trumpeted as inaugurating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1604863358
• ISBN13: 9781604863352
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: PM Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"