Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy

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Ian Greer (Cornell University, USA) Charles Umney (University of Leeds, UK)

Marketization

How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy

Ian Greer (Cornell University, USA), Charles Umney (University of Leeds, UK)

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English

Zed Books Ltd
03 November 2022

Sociology: work & labour; Labour economics; Political economy

Series: Autonomy and Automation

How do markets function? Who creates, shapes and organizes them? And what do they mean for the relationship between labor and capital?

Marketization examines how the state and capital use markets to discipline the working class. Ian Greer and Charles Umney provide a comprehensive overview of the European political economy, from the European Commission to the workplace, to show how neoliberal principles translate into market mechanisms and reshape the lives of workers.

Drawing on dozens of conversations with policymakers, administrators, businesses, workers, and trade unionists across many European countries, Greer and Umney unpack marketization. They go beyond liberal theories that see markets as natural forms of economic organization and broad-brush left critiques of neoliberalism, looking behind the scenes in the current European political economy to examine the practicalities of how markets are created and manipulated by employers, policymakers and bureaucrats in pursuit of greater profitability. Far from leading to greater freedom, these processes often override the rights of individuals, degrade the status and security of workers, and undermine democratic accountability.

By: Ian Greer (Cornell University USA), Charles Umney (University of Leeds, UK)
Imprint: Zed Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781913441456
ISBN 10: 1913441458
Series: Autonomy and Automation
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 03 November 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ian Greer is Director of the ILR Ithaca Co-Lab at Cornell University, USA. Charles Umney is Associate Professor at the University of Leeds, UK.

Reviews for Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy

Marketization is a must-read for any heterodox economist working on distribution, bargaining power, and the state. Ian Greer and Charles Umney bring the political economy of the state in the age of neoliberal globalization and financialization into empirical terrain based on a broad spectrum of case studies ranging from welfare-to-work systems, healthcare, digitalization and the gig economy based on years of field work. * Ozlem Onaran, Professor of Economics, University of Greenwich *