Global Humanization: Studies in the Manufacture of Labour (Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context)

Global Humanization: Studies in the Manufacture of Labour. Despite the centrality of labour in Karl Marx's writing, a theory of human subjectivity remains remarkably undeveloped in communist science. Utilizing recent developments in Marxist theory, this book develops a theory of human sociability through the labour theory value. Writing against orthodox Marxism, the book exposes human practice as a dynamic and contradictory form of value in motion. This theoretical exposition is illustrated and developed by reference to research into the internationalization of labour in New Zealand and Argentina, a reassessment of the role of women workers in Russia and Canada, and the racialization of sections of North American labour. It concludes by arguing that through the process of global humanization human life is not only struggling against the insitutional forms of capitalist power (money and the state), but also struggling against itself. Human emancipation therefore demands the abolition of human life in its current condition and the recomposition of a social world within which human life is the project and not the resource.