Capital, Labour & Class Struggle
in the period of postmodern capitalism

Introduction

Capital and Labour
I: Capital
II: Labour
III: Class struggle

The Struggle of Irreconcilable Social Forces

The Essence of Capitalism Today

1. Service-Commodities
2. Socialisation of Women's Labour
3. Knowledge-Value
4. Privatised States
5. Contracted-out Companies
6. Contractors not Employees
7. De-regulated Labour Market
The Difficulties of Analysis

Money

Jobs

The Illusions of Postmodern Capitalism

The Human Condition under the Rule of Capital

My First Job
The System of Needs
Social Labour
Public and Private Funding
The Organisation of Labour
Capitalist Enterprises
Productive Commerce
The Syllogism of Productive-Exchange
The Individual and Universal Consumer
Productive Domination
Workplace Cooperation
The Flow of Money
Money & Power

Surplus Value

The Value of Labour-power
Capital mobilises social labour
Profit and Value
The Consciousness of Postmodern capitalism
Blurring of lines

The Grip of Capital

The Organisation of the Capitalist Class

Further Work

Notes

Interpenetration of Labour and Capital
Individuality and Dependence
Value added by Association
Social Production of Labour power
Scale of Capital and Rate of Profit
Level Playing Field?

A Word about Logic

Preamble

Development
Mediation
Distortion and Underdevelopment

I: Building Consensus
(i) Assembly Phase
1. Situation
2. Convention
3. Meeting/Federation

(ii) Phase of Reflection
4. Conference
5. Union
6. Communication
7. Conflict

(iii) Production Phase
8. Formation
9. Realisation

(iv) Completion Phase
10. Reinforcement
11. Actualisation
12. Resistance
13. Rejection

(v) Reorientation Phase
14. Renegotiation
15. Regret
16. Recapping

(vi) New Beginning Phase
17. Resolution

More Broadly ...
Hegel's Logic in the light of the above
The Doctrine of Being
The Doctrine of Essence
The Phase of Reflection
The Phase of Formation

II: Hierarchy & Mediation
Universal, Individual & Particular

III: Collectives

(a) Composite
(b) Abstract General
(c) Concrete Universal

Logical Transformations

Mediation

Concrete Universal Organisation

Decision & Election

Judgment of Existence
Judgment of Reflection
Judgment of Necessity
Judgment of Notion

Representation & Delegation

Abstract General (Categorical) Logic

Composite Logic

IV: Crises of Growth
1 Extension
Core & Periphery
"Extended Family"

2 Generalisation

Replication
Addition
Multiplication

3 Universalisation

V: The Reality of Voluntary Organisation
The Contradiction between Formal & Informal Dynamics
Over- & Under-Development
Logics of Fixation

Logics of Underdevelopment

Logics of Exclusion

Logics of Incorporation

VI: The Organisation and the Objective World
The Workers' Movement Today

(A) Class Struggle

(B) Industry- and Trade-Unionism

The Staff Associations
The Public Service Association
The Miscellaneous Workers
Tertiary Education Union
Summary

(C) The flow of money within a voluntary organisation

(D) Political Organisation and the Working Class The Decline in Union Membership