Hegemony and the Politics of Labour

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?

Simon Tunderman is a researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Social Research (SCP). He holds a PhD in political theory from the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS). Previously he worked as a lecturer in European Politics and Society at the University of Groningen.

Introduction  1. Post-Marxism and the Materiality of Labour  2. Labour and Political Society: On the Contingency of Capitalism  3. Money and the Limits of Labour  4. Domination and the Antagonisms of Value  5. Subjectivity and the Logics of Value  Conclusion: Labour, Class, and the Political