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1 online resource (vii, 260 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
In this provocative new study, Zak Cope makes the case that capitalism is empirically inseparable from imperialism, historically and today. Using a rigourous political economic framework, he lays bare the vast ongoing transfer of wealth from the poorest to the richest countries through the mechanisms of monopoly rent, unequal exchange and colonial tribute. The result is a polarised international class structure with a relatively rich Global North and an impoverished, exploited Global South. Cope makes the controversial claim that it is because of these conditions that workers in rich countries benefit from higher incomes and welfare systems with public health, education, pensions and social security. As a result, the internationalism of populations in the Global North is weakened and transnational solidarity is compromised. The only way forward, Cope argues, is through a renewed anti-imperialist politics rooted in a firm commitment to a radical labour internationalism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Value transfer -- Colonial tribute -- Monopoly rent -- Unequal exchange -- Imperialism and its denial -- Measuring imperialist value transfer -- Measuring colonial value transfer -- Comparing value transfer to profits, wages and capital -- Anti-imperialist Marxism and the wages of imperialism -- The metropolitan labour aristocracy -- The native labour aristocracy -- Social imperialism before the First World War -- Social imperialism after the First World War -- Social-imperialist Marxism -- Conclusion: imperialism and anti-imperialism today |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Labor market -- Political aspects.
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Labor market -- Political aspects. |
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Labor market. |
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Imperialism -- Economic aspects.
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Imperialism -- Economic aspects. |
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Imperialism. |
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Distribution (Economic theory)
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Distribution (Economic theory) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cope, Zak. Wealth of (some) nations. London : Pluto Press, 2019 0745338852 (OCoLC)1057375511 |
| ISBN |
9781786804174 (electronic book) |
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1786804174 (electronic book) |
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9781786804181 (epub) |
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1786804182 (epub) |
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9781786804198 (kindle) |
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1786804190 (kindle) |
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9780745338859 (paperback) |
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0745338852 (paperback) |
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9780745338866 (hardback) |
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0745338860 (hardback) |
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