Key Works

Working class and labour

Readings for the sessions on the working class today and work in contemporary capitalism: Marx on labour, E. P. Thompson, Daniel Bensaïd, Michael Löwy, Charlie Post, Dan La Botz, ILO reports and the resolution of the 17th World Congress.

12 works, 1 of them on this site. Fourth International documents and the classics first, then by the number of teaching materials that cite them.

1. Capital, Volumes 1 and 2 (excerpts)Karl Marx · 2016 · external link · cited in 10 teaching materials
2. Fourth International document Social upheavals, fightbacks and alternativesFourth International (17th World Congress) · International Viewpoint · on this site · cited in 7 teaching materialsAlso: 4edu · International Viewpoint
3. Division of labour and manufactureKarl Marx · Capital, Vol. 1 · external link · cited in 3 teaching materials
4. Preface to The Making of the English Working ClassE.P. Thompson · external link · cited in 12 teaching materials
5. Women at Work: Trends 2016ILO · 2016 · ILO · external link · cited in 8 teaching materialsAlso: ilo.org
6. Global Estimates of Modern SlaveryILO · ILO · external link · cited in 5 teaching materials
7. Introduction to the Manifesto for an Ecosocialist Revolution: Work Less, Live BetterM. Jefroudi · International Viewpoint · external link · cited in 5 teaching materials
8. Classes, or the lost subjectDaniel Bensaïd · Marx for Our Times (Verso) · external link · cited in 4 teaching materials
9. Work Transformed: The Promise and Peril of Artificial IntelligenceILO · external link · cited in 4 teaching materials
10. Crisis and World LaborDan La Botz · external link · cited in 3 teaching materials
11. The Communist Revolution and the Self-emancipation of the ProletariatMichael Löwy · 2005 · The Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx (Haymarket Books) · external link · cited in 3 teaching materials
12. We're All Precarious NowCharlie Post · 2015 · Jacobin · external link · cited in 3 teaching materials