Beyond Marx Historical Materialism Book Series Editorial Board Sébastien Budgen, Paris – Steve Edwards, London Marcel van der Linden, Amsterdam – Peter Thomas, London VOLUME 56 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/hm Beyond Marx Theorising the Global Labour Relations of the Twenty-First Century Edited by Marcel van der Linden and Karl Heinz Roth In collaboration with Max Henninger LEidEn • BOSTOn 2014 This book is an English translation of Marcel van der Linden and Karl Heinz Roth (eds.), Über Marx hinaus. © Assoziation A, Berlin/Hamburg 2009 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data Über Marx hinaus. English  Beyond Marx : Theorising the Global Labour Relations of the Twenty-First Century / edited by Marcel van der Linden and Karl Heinz Roth ; in collaboration with Max Henninger.   pages cm. — (Historical materialism book series ; 56)  includes bibliographical references and index.  iSBn 978-90-04-23134-4 (hardback : alk. paper) — iSBn 978-90-04-23135-1 (e-book) 1. Labor—History. 2. Marx, Karl, 1818–1883. 3. Labor theory of value. i. Linden, Marcel van der, 1952– ii. Roth, Karl Heinz. iii. Title.  Hd4851.U2413 2013  355.4’12—dc23 2013024129 This publication has been typeset in the multilingual “Brill” typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, iPA, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see www.brill.com/brill-typeface. iSSn 1570-1522 iSBn 978-90-04-23134-4 (hardback) iSBn 978-90-04-23135-1 (e-book) Copyright 2014 by Koninklijke Brill nV, Leiden, The netherlands. 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Contents notes on Contributors  ............................................................................................... ix introduction  ................................................................................................................. 1  Marcel van der Linden and Karl Heinz Roth Part One The Many-Headed Hydra: Reflections on History from Below  ..................... 23  Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker Seamen on Late Eighteenth-Century European Warships  ............................ 41  Niklas Frykman Class-Warfare: Primitive Accumulation, Military Revolution and the  British War-Worker  ............................................................................................... 65  Peter Way The Shifting Maelstrom: From Plantations to Assembly-Lines  .................... 89  Ferruccio Gambino and Devi Sacchetto Workerism: An inside View. From the Mass-Worker to Self-Employed  Labour  ....................................................................................................................... 121  Sergio Bologna Workers and Working Classes in Contemporary india: A note on  Analytic Frames and Political Formations  ..................................................... 145  Subir Sinha Revolutionary Subjectivity, the Limit to Capital  ............................................... 173  Detlef Hartmann vi • Contents Housewifisation – Globalisation – Subsistence-Perspective  ......................... 209  Maria Mies notes on Elder-Care Work and the Limits of Marxism  .................................. 239  Silvia Federici Part Two Cornelius Castoriadis’s Break With Marxism  ..................................................... 253  Jean-Louis Prat A Theory of defeat. Marx and the Evidence of the nineteenth Century  259  Ahlrich Meyer Poverty, Labour, development: Towards a Critique of Marx’s  Conceptualisations  ................................................................................................ 281  Max Henninger What is Sold on the Labour-Market? .................................................................... 305  Thomas Kuczynski in And For itself: Freedom. On the Historical Tendency of a Renewed  Critique of the Political Economy of Labour  ................................................ 319  Sebastian Gerhardt The ‘Fragment on Machines’ and the Grundrisse: The Workerist Reading  in Question  .............................................................................................................. 345  Massimiliano Tomba and Riccardo Bellofiore Revolution from Above? Money and Class-Composition in  italian Operaismo  ................................................................................................... 369  Steve Wright Marxism after the death of Gold  ........................................................................... 395  C. George Caffentzis From the Mass-Worker to Cognitive Labour: Historical and Theoretical  Considerations  ........................................................................................................ 417  Carlo Vercellone Contents • vii Results and Prospects  ................................................................................................ 445  Karl Heinz Roth and Marcel van der Linden Bibliography  ................................................................................................................. 487 index  ............................................................................................................................... 519 Notes on Contributors Riccardo Bellofiore lectures in the history of economic thought at the University of Bergamo. He is the editor of numerous books, including Global Money, Capital Restructuring, and the Changing Patterns of Labour (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1999), Rereading Marx: New Perspectives after the Critical Edition (new York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009; with Roberto Fineschi), and Rosa Luxemburg and the Critique of Political Economy (new York: Routledge, 2009). Sergio Bologna, historian and social scientist, was one of the chief exponents of italian workerism during the 1960s and 1970s. in 1973, he founded Primo Maggio, a journal for militant historians. during the 1980s, he lectured at the University of Bremen, Germany. He is co-author, with Cesare Bermani and Brunello Mantelli, of Proletarier der ‘Achse’: Sozialgeschichte der italienischen Fremdarbeit in NS-Deutschland 1937 bis 1943 (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1997). His most recent book is Vita da freelance: i lavoratori della conoscenza e il loro futuro (Milan: Feltrinelli, 2011; with dario Banfi). C. George Caffentzis teaches philosophy at the University of Southern Maine and is a member of the Midnight notes Collective. He is the author of Clipped Coins, Abused Words, and Civil Government: John Locke’s Philosophy of Money (Brooklyn: Autonomedia, 1989), Exciting the Industry of Mankind: George Berkeley’s Philosophy of Money (Boston and dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000), and In Letters of Blood and Fire: Work, Machines, and Value in the Bad Infinity of Capitalism (Oakland: PM Press, 2012). Silvia Federici teaches political philosophy at Hofstra University in the USA. She is a co-founder of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa and of the Radical Philosophy Association’s campaign against the death-penalty. She is the author, with Leopoldina Fortunati, of Il grande Calibano: storia del corpo sociale ribelle nella prima fase del capitale (Milan: FrancoAngeli, 1984) and Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle (Oakland: PM Press, 2012). She is also one of the editors of Enduring Western Civilization: The Construction of the Concept of Western Civilization and Its ‘Others’ (Westport: Praeger, 1995).