How the history of a word sheds new light on capitalism and modern politics What exactly is
capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what's at stake in …

Global Labour History has rapidly gained ground as a field of study in the 21st century,
attracting interest in the Global South and North alike. Scholars derive inspiration from the …

Is precarious work the product of specific historical circumstances, such as Post-Fordism and
neoliberalism, or is it the real norm of capitalism, while the so-called" standard employment …

Since the 1990s, labor history has been presented as “in crisis”. This negative evaluation is
an overstatement. It has nevertheless prodded historians, often productively, to rethink the …

Description: Budapest, Hungary; New York, NY: Central European University Press, 2020.|
Series: Work and labor: transdisciplinary studies for the 21st century; volume 1| Includes …

This introduction outlines the possibilities and perspectives of an intertwining between
European integration history and the history of capitalism. Although debates on capitalism …

In the year the Soviet Union collapsed and one year after the German Unification, Robert B.
Reich, then a political scientist, announced the retreat of nationality and the nation state. It …

where commercial speculations figure from the start and production is intended for the world
market, the capitalist mode of production exists, although only in a formal sense, since the …

The question of how the university can relate to the world is centuries old. The poles of the
debate can be characterized by the plea for an increasing instrumentalization of the …

Today Marx enjoys worldwide fame as the incomparable theorist of capitalism and its most
penetrating critic. The term itself, however, rarely appears in his writings. French socialists …