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      • Bibliography
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        • Political economy of the EU
        • UK Uber drivers and the future of work
        • COVID-19
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Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, 1847.
Ben Selwyn and Christin Bernhold, Capitalist Value Chains: Labour Exploitation, Nature Destruction, Geopolitics, Oxford University Press, 2025.
Leopoldina Fortunati, The Arcana of Reproduction: Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers and Capital [1981] Verso, 2025
Rebecca Carson, Immanent Externalities: The Reproduction of Life in Capital, Brill, 2023 (hbk), Haymarket Books (pbk) 2024
World Bank, World Development Report 2024: The Middle Income Trap, World Bank, 2024.
Anna Fielder, Going Into Labour: Childbirth in Capitalism, Pluto Press, 2024.
Sophie Harman, Sick of It: the Global Fight for Women's Health, Virago, 2024
Latest additions to my work
Capitalism and Development in the Third World (1997), complete text in My Work.
The Politics of Global Competitiveness​ (2022), Home page, Overview, Chapter outlines
Short essays: The World Market, Marx's General Law of Social Production, Political Economy of the European Union, UK Uber Drivers and the Future of Work, ​The OECD, the World Bank, COVID-19 and Implications for Future Policy
Marx on social reproduction, Historical Materialism​, 28, 2, 2020, pp. 76-106.
Housework for wages - A theory of capitalism as patriarchy, Capital & Class, 49, 4, 2025, pp. 737-742.
The political economy of post-reproduction society, New Political Economy​, online first.
(Jointly with Martha Gimenez) The permanent global crisis of working-class social reproduction: ten propositions, Global Political Economy​, 4, 2, 2025, pp. 104-119.
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  • Home
    • spotlight
    • How to Read
  • latest
  • By year
    • 2026 >
      • Wuthering Heights
    • 2025 >
      • Arcana of Reproduction
      • Capitalist Value Chains
      • Immanent Externalities
      • The Middle Income Trap
    • 2024 >
      • Depletion
      • Going Into Labour
      • Homes in Crisis Capitalism
      • Minor Detail
      • Politics of Migrant Labour
      • Rethinking Capitalist Development
      • Spectre of State Capitalism
      • Sick of It
    • 2023 >
      • Atlas Shrugged
      • Cannibal Capitalism
      • The Fountainhead
      • Global Political Economy
      • Migrants, Refugees and Societies
      • Mute Compulsion
    • 2022 >
      • Capitalism as Civilisation
      • Colonialism and Modern Social Theory
      • How China Escaped Shock Therapy
      • Gambling on Development
      • The Meddlers
      • Paradise
      • Worldmaking after Empire
    • 2021 >
      • Blind Spots in IPE
      • Brief History of Commercial Capital
      • Capitalism and the Sea
      • Challenges to the Liberal International Order
      • Marx in the Field
      • Power Shift
      • Political Economy of Southeast Asia
    • 2020 >
      • Double Lives
      • Earthlings
      • Engineering Rules
      • Feminism and the Politics of Resilience
      • Gender Politics and Competitiveness
      • Gendered States of Punishment and Welfare
      • Global Police State
      • Good Economics for Hard Times
      • Poor Economics
      • Trading for Development
      • Transnational Capital and European Integration
      • Women and Work
    • 2019 >
      • Age of Surveillance Capitalism
      • Beyond Debt
      • Dialectic of Sex
      • Full Surrogacy Now
      • Future of Work
      • International Organization and Industrial Change
      • Marx, Women and Capitalist Social Reproduction
      • New Silk Road
      • Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale
      • Reframing Convenience Food
      • Spirits of Resistance
      • The Testaments
    • 2018 >
      • Changing Nature of Work
      • China and Russia
      • Everyday Political Economy of Southeast Asia
      • Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis
      • Globalists
      • Marx, Capital and Madness
      • Marx's Capital, Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity
      • New Constitutionalism and World Order
      • New Way of the World
      • OECD and the International Political Economy
      • Securing the World Economy
      • Unlikely Partners
      • Y is for Yesterday
    • 2017 >
      • Beyond Defeat and Austerity
      • Beyond US Hegemony
      • Communism for Kids
      • Cutting the Gordian Knot
      • Globalization and Transnational Surrogacy
      • How the West Came to Rule
      • October
      • Post-Fordist Sexual Contract
      • The Quantified Self
      • Strong State and Free Economy
      • States of Discipline
      • The Sweatshop Regime
    • 2016 >
      • Capital Ideas
      • Crisis and Contradiction
      • Critical Perspectives on the Crisis of Global Governance
      • Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy
      • Global Crises and the Crisis of Global Leadership
      • Global Development Crisis
      • Globalisation and the critique of political economy
      • Governing the World?
      • Markets and Development
      • Marxism and the Oppression of Women
      • Marx on Gender and the Family
      • Power, Production and Social Reproduction
      • Return of the Public
      • Rules for the World
      • Scandalous Economics
      • Social Reproduction
      • Wombs in Labor
      • Women's Oppression Today
  • Index
    • A-B
    • C-D
    • E-G
    • H-L
    • M-N
    • O-T
    • U-Z
  • My work
    • Articles
    • Capitalism and Democracy in the Third World >
      • Introduction
      • Chapter 1
      • Chapter 2
      • Chapter 3
      • Chapter 4
      • Chapter 5
      • Chapter 6
      • Chapter 7
      • Chapter 8
      • Chapter 9
      • Bibliography
    • Politics of Global Competitiveness >
      • Overview
      • Chapter outlines
      • New essays >
        • The World Market
        • Marx's General law of Social Production
        • Political economy of the EU
        • UK Uber drivers and the future of work
        • COVID-19
    • Working Papers Series >
      • Global Competitiveness >
        • PGC1
        • PGC2
        • PGC3
        • PGC4
        • PGC5
        • PGC6
        • PGC7
        • PGC10
      • MDBs and Global Financial Crisis >
        • MDB1
        • MDB2
        • MDB3
        • MDB4
        • MDB5
        • MDB6
        • MDB7
        • MDB8