Service Workers in the Era of Monopoly Capital: A Marxist Analysis of Service and Retail Labour

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Fabian van Onzen

Service Workers in the Era of Monopoly Capital

A Marxist Analysis of Service and Retail Labour

Fabian van Onzen

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English

Haymarket Books
24 January 2023

Social & political philosophy; Marxism & Communism; Economic theory & philosophy; Service industries

Series: Studies in Critical Social Science

A much-needed, Marxist economic account of service and retail work, as well as the political alternatives.

In Service Workers in the Era of Monopoly Capital, Fabian van Onzen uses Marxist theory to analyse the process by which service and retail workers are exploited by the capitalist class. His analysis takes us through the primary concepts of Marxism—surplus-value, commodity form, etc.—and demonstrates their relevance for understanding the service industry. The book reveals that service and retail workers—shop employees, cleaners, hospitality workers—are integral to the capitalist system and have significant power to transform society if organised effectively.

Van Onzen argues that the key to ending the exploitation of service workers is through the socialist transformation of society. The book contains an examination of how service work could be organised under socialism and provides examples of how former socialist countries changed the nature of service labour.

By: Fabian van Onzen
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781642597967
ISBN 10: 1642597961
Series: Studies in Critical Social Science
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 24 January 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Fabian van Onzen is Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Lone Star College in Houston, Texas. His work has appeared in the Marx and Philosophy Review of Books, Monthly Review Online, and Capital and Class.