In Rethinking
Global Labour (Agenda Publishing, 2018), Ronaldo Munck has produced an
important contribution to ongoing analyses of the potential role of global
labour in shaping the global political economy and resisting capitalist
exploitation. In this review, while appreciating Munck’s empirical insights, I
will nonetheless be rather critical of the underlying conceptual assumptions,
which ultimately limit the impact of his findings.
In
2017, Ariel Salleh published the second edition of her book Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx and the
Postmodern
(Zed Books, 2017). In her outstanding engagement with multiple oppressions
within the capitalist global economy, Salleh convincingly argues that
patriarchal oppression is inextricably internally related to the destruction of
nature in capitalism’s relentless search for accumulating ever higher levels of
surplus value. In this blog post, I will provide an overview of the main
arguments of the book as well as offer some critical reflections.
