Market and Violence

Technology and Socio-economic Progress: Traps and Opportunities for the Future

Heide Gerstenberger (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

756 Seiten

2023
Haymarket Books (Verlag)
978-1-64259-990-9 (ISBN)

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Despite their many disagreements when it comes to the subject of capitalism, Marxist and market-liberal perspectives seem to agree about one thing: the economic structures of capitalist market society have made direct violence against the person not only superfluous, but economically counterproductive. Heide Gerstenberger's Market and Violence does not contest the thesis that there has been, in many places, a decline in the use of violence in the pursuit of profit. But it demolishes the assumption that this can be put down to the evolution of economic rationality.

By means of a deep engagement with the concrete historical reality of capitalist economies, Gerstenberger establishes that, wherever capitalism has been tamed, this has been achieved only by a combination of energetic social contestation and political intervention. First published in German in 2018, the present English-language edition makes a sweeping history of capitalist violence by one of the preeminent theorists of capitalist society working today available to a wider readership.

Winner of the 2023 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize.

Heide Gerstenberger is a German social theorist who, until 2005 was Professor for the Theory of Bourgeous Society at the University of Bremen. Her major work on state theory, Impersonal Power, was published in the Historical Materialism Book Series in 2007.

Preliminary Observations to Market and Violence

1 On Direct Violence in Pitiless Conditions

2 Armed World Trade

Robbery and regulations

Overseas Trade Monopolies

Just Another Commodity

First Theoretical Remark: On Merchants and Capitalists

3 Historical Preconditions for Capitalist Accumulation in Metropolitan Capitalist Countries

Competition Set Free

The Pacification of Transport Routes

The Capital of Industrial Capitalism

The Liberation of Wage Labour from Coercive Political Power

Servitude, Slavery, Free and Unfree Wage Labour in the United States

Second Theoretical Remark: The Political Economy of Capitalist Labour

4 Appropriation Abroad

Forced Trade

Territorial Sovereignty

Fiscal Exploitation

Tributes, Poll Taxes and Labour Services

Limits to Taxation

Settlement and Expulsion

Excursus: Justifications

Practices of Settlement

Teaching a Lesson

Making Indigenous People into ‘Natives’

Third Theoretical Remark: Capitalist Colonial Rule

Labour under Coercive Colonial Power

Fourth Theoretical Remark: Colonial State Violence

5 The World at War

The Burdens of the ‘Great War’ on African Shoulders

The War of the Others

6 The Domestication of Industrial Capitalism in the Metropolitan Capitalist States

England

USA

France

Germany

Fifth Theoretical Remark: The Functioning of Domesticated Capitalism and Its Vulnerability

7 Domesticated Capitalism in Globalised Competition

Preconditions of Globalisation

Decisions

The Political End to the ‘Trente Glorieuses’

8 Market and Violence in Globalised Capitalism

Sixth Theoretical Remark: Unbounded Exploitation

Forced Sex Work

Basic Patterns of Labour Exploitation in Globalised Capitalism

The Boundless Exploitation of ‘Foreigners’

Seventh Theoretical Remark: States and Their Margins

Unbounded Exploitation ‘Offshore’

Unbounded ‘Inshore’ Exploitation in Non-metropolitan Capitalist Countries

Eighth Theoretical Remark: Class Analysis?

The Political Geography of Poison

Unbounding the World of Commodities

Commercialised Force of Arms

Physical Nature, Production and Violence

Ninth Theoretical Remark: PostColonial States as a Theoretical Challenge

On the New Political Economy of Violent Criminality

Tenth Theoretical Remark: Violent Criminality in Global Capitalism

Concluding Remarks on Market and Violence

Postscript

Bibliography

Index of Names

Index of Subjects

Erscheinungsdatum	13.10.2023
Reihe/Serie	Historical Materialism
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Chicago
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-64259-990-5 / 1642599905
ISBN-13	978-1-64259-990-9 / 9781642599909
Zustand	Neuware