Hegemony And The Politics Of Labour Towards A Discourse Theory Of Value In Contemporary Capitalism Simon Tunderman by Simon Tunderman 9781003440567, 9781003808732, 9781032576909, 1003440568, 1003808735, 1032576901 instant download after payment.

"Hegemony and the Politics of Labour takes up a question that goes to the heart of the debate about politics, capitalism, and discourse: how can labour relations and value production be understood as discursive processes? When they launched their poststructuralist discourse theory almost 40 years ago, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe positioned the contingency of discourse and politics in sharp contrast to the deterministic tendencies of the critique of capitalism. Moving beyond the Marxist critique of political economy as an essentialist 'other', discourse theory has since remained notoriously silent on questions related to the core workings of the capitalist economy. This book is the first to bring the central categories of discourse theory into conversation with Marx's critique of political economy. It argues that the social relations of labour in capitalism emerge as a hegemonic formation. Its contribution is to extend the reach of discourse theory to the capitalist economy, exploring how a post-Marxist account of labour, value, and class connects to the contingent politics of populism. Hegemony and the Politics of Labour is an original and important contribution to the fields of discourse theory and Marxist critique of political economy"--