Capitalism ln Transformation Movements and Countermovements in the 21st Century

Edited by Roland Atzmüller

Johannes Kepler University, Brigitte Aulenbacher

Johannes Kepler Univers ity, Aus tria Ulrich Brand

University of Vienna, Austria Fabienne Döcieux Johannes Kepler University, Austria Karin Fischer

Johannes Kepler Univers ity, Aus tria Birgit Sauer

University of Vienn,a, Austria

EE H$X*l* Ergar Cheltenham, UK. Northampton, MA, USA Contents Gr Roland Atzmüiler, Brigitte Aulenbacher, ulrich Brand, Fabienne Döcieux, Karin Fischer and Birgit Sauer 2019

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All rights reserved. No part ofthis publication may be reproduced, stored in a 1 Polanyian perspectives on the movements and mechanical or retrieial system or tranimitted in any form or by any means' electronic, countennovements of "our time": an introduction or otherwise without the prior permission ofthe publisher. photocopying, recording, Roland Atzmüller, Brigitte Aulenbacher, Ulrich Brand, Döcieux, Karin Fischer and Birgit Sauer Published by Fabienne Edward Elgar Publishing Limited The Lypiatts PART I HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL l5 Lansdown Road REFLECTIONS: KARL POLANYI' Cheltenham AND SOCIETY Glos GL50 2JA UK 2 A life-long search for freedom. From Budapest to journey through Karl Polanyi's life 22 Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc. America and back: a William Pratt House Kari Polanyi-Levitt, interviewed by Michael Brie and 9 Dewey Court Claus Thomasberger Northampton Massachusetts 01060 3 "Plunges into utter destruction" and the limits ofhistorical USA capitalism 35 Beverly J. Silver A catalogue record for this book 4 Crises and transformations: suggestions from Karl is available from the British Library Polanyi's works 46 Library of Congress Control Number: 2019949930 Michele Cangiani

5 Karl Polanyi as a theorist of disembedded markets 60 in the This book is available electronically Christoph Deutschmann Social and Political Science subject DOr | 0.4337 I 97 81 7 8897 4240 6 A Polanyian paradox: money and credit as fictitious commodities, financialization, finance-dominated t\4tx .A accumulation, and financial crises 75 FSC FSC. C013056 Bob Jessop

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t7 The "fictitious commodity" care and the reciprocity of PART II CONTEMPORARY DEVELOPMENTS OF caring: a Polanyian and neo-institutionalist perspective SOCIETY AND CAPITALISM IN EUROPE the brokering of24-hour care 245 AND BEYOND on Brigitte Aulenbacher and Michael Leiblfinger 7 Polanyian perspectives on after socialism 92 commodification of informal care: joining and Dorothee Bohle and Böla Greskovits l8 The resisting marketization processes 261 8 Economy-society tensions in the Eurozone: the Bemhard Weicht "anti-democratic virus" revived 105 19 double movement and the making of the Maria Markantonatou Polanyi's "knowledge economy" 274 9 Political Islam as reactionary countermovement l19 Antonino Palumbo and Alan Scott AySe Bugra 20 Polanyi and the digital transformation of labour: on t0 "Freedom's utter frustration...": considerations on fictitious commodities and real conflicts 289 neoliberal social-policy reforms and the shift to the Hans-Jürgen Urban far-right through Polanyi's theory offascism 135 Index 307 Roland Atzmüller and Fabienne Döcieux

ll Völkisch populism: a Polanyian-type movement? 152 Karina Becker and Klaus Dörre

12 Cultural war 2.0? The relevance of gender in the radical populist-nationalist right 169 Birgit Sauer

PART III "FICTITIOUS COMMODITIES'' AND THE CHALLENGES OF "OUR TIME''

l3 Contestedsocial-ecologicaltransformation:shortcomings ofcurrent debates and Polanyian perspectives r84 Ulrich Brand, Christoph Görg and Markus Wissen 14 Polanyi, nature and the international: the missing dimension of imperial ecocide 198 Vishwas Satgar and Michelle Williams 15 Soy expansion and countermovements in the Global South: a Polanyian persPective 212 Karin Fischer and Ernsl Langthaler 16 Navigating between improvement and habitation: countermovements in housing and urban infrastructure in Vienna 228 Andreas Novy, Richard Brirnthaler and Basil Stadelmann Contributors lx

Karina Becker is the scientific director of the Centre of Advanced Research ..Post Growth societies" atthe Friedrich-schiller-university ofJena (). Her research areas include right-wing populism, care work, solidarity, and industrial relations. Recent publications include: 'Live-in and Bum-out? Migrantische Pflegekräfte in deutschen Haushalten" Arbeit: zeitschrift für Contributors Arüeitsforschung, Arbeitsgestaltung und Arbeitspolitik,25 (l-2) 2016,2146: Arbeiterbewegung von rechts? ungleichheit - verleilurtgsldmpfe - pop- ulistische Reiolte, Campus 2018 (co-edited with Klaus Dörre and Peter .Temporary Roland Atzmüller is Associate Professor at the Department for the Theory Reif-Spirek); workforce under Pressure: Poor occupational of Society and Social Analyses, Institute of , Johannes Kepler Safety and Health (OSH) as a Dimension of Precarity?' , Management Rewte' University Linz, Austria. He works on critical social theories, transformation 29 (l) 2018, 32-54 (co-atthored with Thomas Engel)' of (welfare) states, social policies and work. Recent publications include: Dorothee Bohle holds a Chair in Social and Political Change at the Department Kris enbearheitung durch Subj ektivierung: Kritis che Theorie der Veränderung ofPolitical and Social Sciences ofthe European University Institute' Florence' des Staates im Kontext humankapitalzentrierter Sozialpolitik, Westfälisches Her research is at the intersection of comparative politics and political economy Dampfboot 20191 Empoutering Young People in Disempowering Times: with a special focus on East central Europe. Her most recent book, capitalist Fighitng Inequality through Capability Oriented Policy, Edward Elgar 2017 Diversity on Europe's Periphery (cornell University Press 2012, co-authored with Hans-uwe otto, valerie Egdell and Jean Michel Bonvin). tco-edited with Böla Greskovits), won the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Brigitte Aulenbacher is Professor of Sociological Theory and Research. Her publications have also appeared in Comparative Analysis, heads the Department for the Theory of Society and Social Analyses Politics, studies in Comparative International Development. wesl European at thÄ Institute of Sociology at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, Politics, Journal of Democracy, European Journal of sociology, and Revieu' and is vice-president of the lntemational Karl Polanyi Society. She co-chairs of International Political Economy. Recent publications include: 'European (with Helma Lutz and Karin Schwiter) the project "Decent care work? Integration, Capitalist Diversity and Crises Trajectories on Europe's Eastern Transnational Home care Arrangements" and co-edits (with Klaus Döne) Periphery', New P ol itical E conomy. 23 (2) 20 I 8' 239-53' Global Dialogue Magazine of the International Sociological Association. - Ulrich Brand is since 2007 Professor of International Politics at the University Recent publications include: 'Global Sociology of care and care work" of vienna. Since 2017 he is member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Current Sociology,66 (4) 2018 (co-edited with Helma Lutz and Birgit Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam. His research Riegraf); Special Issue: 'Care and Care Work: A Question of Economy, areas are: imperial mode of living, multiple crises of liberal . Justice and Democracy" Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International social-ecological transformation, political ecology. state and regulation theory, Journal.3T (4) 201s (co-edited with Birgit Riegraf); 'Karl Polanyi, "The Great and Latin America. Recent publications include: The Limits to Capitalist Transfonnation", and Contemporary Capitalism', Österreichische Zeitschrift Nature: Theorizing and overcoming the Imperial Mode of Living, Rowman fi)r soziologie,44 (2) 2019. 105-13 (co-edited with Richard Bämthaler and & Litrlefield 2018 (co-edited with Markus wissen); 'The Double Materiality Andreas Noty). of Democracy in capitalist Societies: challenges for Social-Ecological Richard Bärnthaler. MSc, works at the Institute for Multilevel Governance Transformations', Environmental Politics (online), 2018 (co-authored with and Development (wu vienna) and the Department of Development Studies Melanie Pichler and christoph Görg)l 'Growth and Domination: Shortcomings (university ofvienna) on questions concerning philosophy ofscience, science of the (De-)Growth Debate'. in stefan G. Jacobsen (ed.), climate .Iustice and studies, transdisciplinarity, and (Polanyi-related) transformation research' the Economy: Social Mobilization, Knowledge and the Political, Routledge Recent publications include: 'The Fallacy of Naturalism as a Response to the 2018,148-67 Relativist" organon F: International Journal of Analytic Philosophy,25 (3) Michael Brie, Dr. habil., is senior fellow at the Institute for Critical Social 201 8, 3 16-38; 'Karl Polanyi, "The Great Transformation", and Contemporary Analysis of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Berlin in the field of history Capitalism', Österreichische Zeitschrift .fi)r Soziologie, 4a Q) 2019' 105-13 and iheory socialism and communism. He is chief-editor of the series (co-edited with Brigitte Aulenbacher and Andreas Novy). of

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and Inclusion: Contribution to Critical Transformation Research. His most recent books are: and Questions of Justice and lnequality', Equality, Diversity (co-authored with Brigitte Das Kommunistische; Odet: Ein Gespenst kommt nicht zur Ruhe,YSA 2016 An International Journal, 37 (4) 2018, 34740 (edited with Lutz Brangsch); Karl Polanyi in Dialogue: A socialist Thinker Aulenbacher and Birgit Riegraf). das hellblaue for ottr Time.Black Rose Books 2017; Lenin neu entdecken: Christoph Deutschmann is Professor (emeritus) of Sociology at the der Revolution & Metaphysik der Herrschaft, YSA Bcindchen zur Dialektik University of Tübingen, Germany. His research interests and publications are Vision Socialist Transformation, Black Rose 2017 Kart Polanyi's of a in the fields of economic sociology, the sociology of work, and social theory. (co-edited with claus Thomasberger); Äosa Luxemburg neu ent- Books 2018 Recent publications include: Disembedded Markets: Economic Theologl, and zu "Freiheitfi)r den Feind! Demokratie und clecken: ein hellhlaues Bcindchen Gtobal capitalism, Routledge 2019; 'Disembedded Markets as a Mirror of ". 2019. Sozialismus VSA Society: Blind Spots of Social Theory', European .Iournal of Social Theory', heutige Ayqe Btrfra is Emerita Professor at Bogazici University and an affiliate of 18 (4) 2015, 368-89; 'Entzauberung des Geldes: Max Weber und der (eds), the Bogazici University Research Center Social Policy Forum which she Finanzmarkt-Kapitalismus" in Thomas Schwinn and Gert Albert l/le Lichte aktueller co-founded in 2004. She has taught and published in the areas of develop- Begrffi - Neue Probleme: Max Webers Soziologie im ment studies. social policy, state-business relations, and the socio-economic P r ob I ems t ellungen, Mohr S iebeck 20 I 6. I 49 -7 0. is currently working on questions of equality history of modern Turkey. She Klaus Dörre is Professor of Sociology at the Friedrich-Schiller-University and politics of social policy. Recent publications include: New Capitalism in of Jena (Germany) where he chairs the Department of Labour, Industrial and The Relationship between Politics, and Business, Edwatd Tru'ke1,: Economic Sociology. His areas of research include the theory of capitalism, (co-authored with Osman Savaskan); 'Revisiting "Freedom in Elgar 2014 flexible and precarious employment, and labour relations, among others. He Society": A View from the Periphery', in Michael Brie and Claus a Complex is spokesman of the German Research Foundation (DFG) research group Vision of a Socialist Transformation, Thomasberger (eds), Karl Polaryti's ..Post-Growth Societies" (with Hartmut Rosa), research associate at the Black Rose Books 2018. She is the translator of Karl Polanyi's The Great Society, work and Development Institute (swoP) at the universify of the into Turkish (Bibtük Dönüsüm, Alan Yaylncrltk 1986)' Transformation witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and co-editor (with Brigitte Aulenbacher) of Michele Cangiani is Associate Professor of Economic Sociology; he has Gtobat Dialogue - Magazine of the International sociological Association. taught at the Universitä di Bologna and Universitä Ca' Foscari Venezia. He is Recent publications include: Capitalism and Labor: Towards Critical a member of the Board of Directors of the Karl Polanyi Institute (Montrdal) Perspectives, Campus 2018 (co-edited with Nicole Mayer-Ahuja' Dieter and of the Editorial Board of the Forum.for Social . His main fields Sauer and Volker Wittke); 'social Capitalism is a Thing of the Past: of research are: the history and method of economic theories and political competition-driven "Landnahme" and the Metamorphosis of the German philosophy. Recent publications include: 'Economic Knowledge and Value Model', in Paolo Chiocchetti and Frddöric Allemand (eds), Competitiveness Judgements'. in Monika Poettinger and Gianfranco Tusset (eds), Economic and solidarity in the European union: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Thought and History,: An (Jnresolved Relationship, Routledge 2016' 58-72; Routledge 2019, 149-81; 'A Right-Wing Workers' Movement? Impressions "'social Freedorn" in the Twenty-First Century: Rereading Polanyi'. Journal from Germany', Global Labour Journal,g (3) 2018' 33947. of Economic lssues. 5l (4) 2017 ,9 I 5-3 8; Karl Polanyi, Economy and Society: Karin Fischer is Senior Lecturer and teaches global sociology at the Institute Selected W'ritings, Polity Press 2018 (co-edited with Claus Thomasberger). of Sociology at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. Her research focuses Fabienne D6cieux is a PhD candidate at the Department for the Theory on neoliberal transformation, global commodity chains and uneven develop- of Society and Social Analyses, lnstitute of Sociology, Johannes Kepler ment in historical and transnational perspective. Recent publications include; University Linz, Austria. Her fields of interest and research are: critical social Handbuch Entwicklungsforschung, Springer 2016 (co-edited with Gerhard theories. gender studies, sociology of work and research on care. Recent Hauck and Manuela Boatcä); Clases dominantes y desarrollo desigual: Chi'le publications include: 'The Economic Shift and Beyond: Care as a Contested entre 1830 y 2010, Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado 2017; Globale Terrain in Contemporary Capitalism' , Current Sociologt,66 (4) 2018, 5 l7-30 Ungleichheit (co-edited with Margarete Grandner), Mandelbaum 2019. She (co-authored with Brigitte Aulenbacher and Birgit Riegrafl; 'Capitalism Goes coordinated the section on Neoliberal Think Tank Networks in Global Care: Elder and Child Care between Market, State, Profession, and Family Conlrihulors xlll xtl Capitalism in translormation

Political and Social Crises: Dynamics, Construals, and Lessons, Routledge Dialogue Magazine of the International Sociological Associatioz (online), - 2018 (co-edited with Karim Knio). He is currently writing a new monograph 8 (2) 2018. on Civil Society as a Mode of Governance: Between Self-Entancipation and Christoph Görg is since 2015 Professor of Social Ecology at the Institute Self- Respons ib ilization (forthcoming 2020)' of Social Ecology at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Ernst Langthaler is Professor and the head ofthe Department ofSocial and Vienna. His research areas are: critical theory of societal nature rela- Economic History at Johannes Kepler University Linz and of the Institute tions. social-ecological transformation, political and social ecology, state of Rural History in St. Pölten, Austria. His current research focuses on theory, and landscape governance. Recent publications include: 'Challenges commodity history in the age of globalization. Recent publications include: for Social-Ecological Transformations: Contributions from Social and eine Einfiihrung, Böhlau 2018 (co-edited with Ulrich Political Ecology'. Sustainability, 9 (7) 2017, l-21 (co-authored with Agro-Food Studies: Ermann, Marianne Penker and Markus Schermer); 'The Soy Paradox: The Ulrich Brand, Helmut Haberl, Diana Hummel, Thomas Jahn and Stefan Nutrition Transition Revisited, I 950-20 I 0', Global Environment, 1 7 Liehr);'Die Historisierung der Staatsform: Regulationstheorie, radikaler Western (l) 2018, 79_104;'Food Regimes and their Trade Links: A Socio-ecological Reformismus und die Herausforderungen einer Großen Transformation', in Perspective', Ecological Economics, 160 (June) 2019. 87-95 (co-authored Ulrich Brand and Christoph Görg (eds), Zur Aktualitdt der Staatsform: Die with Fridolin Krausmann). Materialistische Staatstheorie von Joachim Hirsch, Nomos 2018, 21-38; 'The Double Materiality of Democracy in Capitalist Societies: Challenges for Michael Leiblfinger is a researcher within the project "Decent Care Work? Social-Ecological Transformations', Environmental Politics (online), 2018, Transnational Home Care Arrangements" at the Department of the Theory l-21 (co-authored with Melanie Pichler and Ulrich Brand). of the Society and Social Analyses at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. Recent publications are: 'Völlig legal!? Rechtliche Rahmung und B6la Greskovits is University Professor at the Department of Intemational Legalitätsnarrative der 24h-Betreuung in Deutschland, Österreich und Relations at Central European University, Budapest. His research interests in der Schweiz', Österreichische Zeitschrift Soziologie, 44 (1) 2019' l-19 are the political economy of East-Central European capitalism, comparative .fi)r (co-authored with Jennifer Steiner, Veronika Prieler and Aranka Benazha); Elf economic development. social movements, and democratization. His arti- Jahre 24-Stunden-Betreuung in Österreich: Eine Policlt- und Regime-Analyse, cles appeared in Studies in Comparative and International Development, (with Prieler). Labor History, Orhis. Il'est European Politics, Competition and Change, KU Linz 2018 Veronika Journal of Democraclt, European Journal of Sociology, Global Policy, and Maria Markantonatou is an Assistant Professor in Political Sociology at the Transfer - European Review of Labor and Research. Recent publications Department of Sociology of the University of the Aegean in Lesvos, Greece. include: 'Politicising Embedded Neoliberalism: Continuity and Change in She was a fellow at the Kolleg Postwachstumsgesellschaften (Research Hungary's Development Model', West European Politics (online), 2018,1)5 Group on Post-Growth Societies) at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, (co-authored with Dorothee Bohle); 'Civic Activism, Economic Nationalism, Germany. Her research interests focus on the transformations of democracy and Welfare for the Better Off: Pillars of Hungary's Illiberal State', in Michael under neoliberalism and especially in the framework of the crisis in Greece. Ignatieff and Stephan Roch (eds), Rethinhing Open Society: New Adversaries Her recent publications on the Greek crisis include: 'State-lmposed Austerity and Neu, Opportunities, Central European University Press 2018. 295-310. in Greece', Global Dialogue - Magazine of the International Sociological (online), (4) 2016;'The "Politics of Fulfillment" as Preliminary Bob Jessop is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University, Association 6 Precarious State in Greece', in Vassilis K. Fouskas and UK. He is best known for his contributions to state theory, critical political for the Making of a (eds), Greece the 2lst Century: The Politics and economy. critical social theory, and critical govemance studies. Recent pub- Constantine Dimoulas in 2018, 142-62. She is also working on lications include: Towards a Cultural Political Economy: Puttirtg Culture in Economics of a Crisis, Routledge co-editing a book on Polanyi together with its Place in Political Economy, Edward Elgar 2013 (with Ngai-Ling Sum); Karl Polanyi and sfre is currently Polanlti's Political and Economic The State: Past, Present, Future, Polity Press 2015. An extended research Gareth Dale and Christopher Holmes: Karl Publications 20 I 9. project on financial crises and crises of crisis-management led to two co-edited Thought, Agenda volumes: Financial Cultures and Crisis Dynamics, Routledge 2014 (co-edited Andreas Noly is Associate Professor and head of the Institute for Multi-Level with Brigitte Young and Christoph Scherrer); The Pedagogy of Economic, Governance and Development at the Department of Socioeconomics at WU Contribulors XV xiv C ap i tal is m in t rans.form at ion

African politics, and Marxism. Recent publications include: vienna and president of the International Karl Polanyi Society. He works economy, South Challenges Mami'sm and Anti-Raclsz' Wits in the field of urban development, international political economy, social Racismi after Apartheid: .for Press 20191 Climate crisis: south African and Global Democratic innovation and social-ecological transformation. Recent publications include: university Alternatives, wits university Press 2018, Capitalism's crises: .Karl Polanyi, ',The Great Transformation", and Contemporary Capitalism', Eco-Socialist in south Africa and the llortd,wits university Press20l5; Tlrc österreichische Zeitschrift .fiir Soziologie, 44 (2) 2019, 105-13 (co-edited class struggles Alternative: Emerging Theory and Practice, University of with Brigitte Aulenbacher and Richard Bärnthaler); Die Finanzialisierung der Solidarityiconomy Press 2014; Marxisms in the 2lst Centurt,: Crisis, Critique & Weh: Kärt Polanyi und die neoliherale Transformation der Weltwirtschaft, KwaZulu-Natal university Press 2013 (co-edited with Michelle williams). Beltz Juventa 2019 (authored by Karl Polanyi-Levitt, co-edited with claus struggle,wits Thomasberger and Michael Brie); Local Social Innovation to Combat Poverty Birgit sauer is since 2006 Professor at the Department of Political Science (together stijn and E4clusion: A Critical Appraisal, Policy Press 2019 with at tie University of Vien'a. She has published on gender, governance and Oosterlynck and Yuri KazePov). democracy, on gender equality policies, on gender and right-wing pop- transformation. Recent publications Antonino Palumbo is an Associate Professor in Political Philosophy at ulism and on affective labour and state 'Intersections and lnconsistencies: Framing Gender in Right-Wing Palermo University (Italy). His research is on globalization, the transformation include: Austria', NOM: Nordic Journal of'Feminist and of governance and the implications of changes in state steering for modem Populist Discourses in (4) 2014,250-266 (together with Edma Ajanovic and representative democracies. His most recent works in English are: Situating Ginder Research,22 (Jnaccompanied Children in European Migration and Governance: Context, Content, Critique, ECPR Press 2015:, Remaking Market Stefanie Mayer); Practices: In Whose Best Interests?, Routledge 2017 (co-edited with sociery*: A Critique of social Theory and Political Economlt in Neoliberal Asylum Gornik); Populism and the weh: communicative ftnes, Routledge 2018 (co-authored with Alan scott). He is also co-editor of Mateja Sedmak and Barbara Parties and Movemenls in Europe, Routledge 2017 (co-edited the Routledge Library of Contemporary Essays in Political Theory and Public Practices of Poliq;. with Mojca Pajnik). in the school of Humanities, Arts and Kari Polanyi-Levitt is Emerita Professor at McGill university, Montreal, Alan Scott is Professor of Sociology of New England (Australia) and an adjunct in the and Honorary PhD of the University of the West Indies, Jamaica; recipient social Sciences, university university of Innsbruck (Austria). His of the Order of Canada. She is the author and editor of (amongst others) School of Social and Political sciences, political and social theory. He is co-author Silent Sunender: The Multinational Corporation in Canada, Macmillan research interests are in sociology Remaking Market socieflt: A Critique of 1970; The Life and Work of Karl Polanyi: A Celebration, Black Rose Books - with Antonino Palumbo - of Economy in Neoliberal ftmes, Routledge 2018; 1990; Karl Polaryti in Vienna: The Contemporary Significance of "The social Theory and Political .(Plebiscitary) Return of an lllusion?' Thesis Eleven. Great Transformation", Black Rose Books 2000 (co-edited with Kenneth Leader Democracy: The , .shifting Repertoires of Populism and Neo-Nationalism: McRobbie), Reclaiming Development: Independent Thought and Caribbean 143 (l) 2018,310 in Bligh J. Grant, Tod W. Moore and Tony Lynch, Community,Ian Randle 2005; dssays on the Theory of Plantation Economy: Austria and Brexit Britain', 2019.217-35. A Historical and Institutional Approach to Caribbean Economic Development, The Rise of Right-Popullsrn, Springer From University of the West Indies Press 2009 (co-edited with Lloyd Best); Beverly J. Silver is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Arrighi center On Karl Polanyi and the Great Transformation to the Great Financialization: for Global Studies at the Johns Hopkins University (USA). Her best-known Other Essays. Fernwood 2013. book is Forces qf Labor: workers' Movements and Globalization ,since 1870. focuses on the histor- Vishwas Satgar is Associate Professor in the Department of lntemational Cambridge University Press 2003. Her ongoing research global including a revisiting of the arguments put Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) and chairper- ical dynamics of capitalism, Modern World Sltstem, University son on the board of the Cooperative and Policy Alternative Centre (COPAC). forward in Chaos,and Governance in the (co-authored Amighi) in light of the He is the principal investigator for the Emancipatory Futures Studies project of Minnesota Press 1999 with Giovanni at Wits and is a board member of the Wits Food Sovereignty Centre. He current period of systemic chaos. series (Wits University is the series editor of the Democratic Marxism Basil Stadelmann, MSc, is a research assistant at the Institute for Multilevel systemic alternatives, Africa's political Press) and has published widely on Governance and Development at the Department of Socioeconomics at WU Contribulors \vil xvt Cap it al isnr i n lransformation

Vienna. His research topics are housing, gentrification, financialization, and Macmillan 2015 The Commonalities oJ Global Crises: Markets, Communities Kamer). urban development. He recently graduated from the interdisciplinary Master and Nostalgia, Palgrave Macmillan 2016 (co-edited with Christian Programme Socio-Ecological Economics and Policy with a thesis on the finan- Michelle Williams is Professor of Sociology at the University of the cialization of housing in Vienna. Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg. She is chairperson of the Clobal (2010 to present), chairperson Claus Thomasberger is Professor (emeritus) at the University of Applied Labour University Programme (GLU) at Wits (2017-18), and a member of the Sciences, Berlin, Germany. His research interests are: European integration, of the Intemational GLU Steering committee published widely history of economic thought, economic history, and political philosophy. He board of the Wits Development Studies programme. She has is the author and editor of numerous books, including'. Chronik der grofien on democracy, development, Marxism, gender, and South-South comparisons. Transformation (3 vols), Metropolis 2002-2005 (co-edited with Michele Her publications include: The Roots o.f Participatory Democract': Dentocratic Cangiani); From Crisis to Grov,th? The Challenge of Debt and Imbalances, Communists in South Africa and Kerala, India, Palgrave Macmillan 2008; Metropolis 2012 (co-edited with Hansjörg Herr and Torsten Niechoj); Das Building Alternatives: The Story of India's Oldest Construction Workers' n.eoliberale Credo: lJrsprünge, Entwicklung und Kritik, Metropolis 2012; Cooperative, LeftWord 2017 (co-authored with Thomas lsaac): South Auf der Suche nach dem Ökonomi.schen - Karl Marx zum 200. Geburtstag, A.frica and India: Shaping the Global South. Wits University Press 201 I Metropolis 2018 (co-edited with Rainer Lucas and Reinhard Pfriem); Karl (co-edited with lsabel Hofmeyr); Labour in the Glohal South: Challenges Polanvi's Vision of a Socialist Transformatiorl, Black Rose Books 2018 and Alternatives .for Workers, International Labour Office 2012 (co-edited (co-edited with Michael Brie)', Economy and Society: Selected Writings,Pohty with Sarah Mosoetsa); Marxisms in the 2lst Centwl'; Crisis, Critique' and The Press 201 8 (co-edited with Michele Cangiani). Struggle, Wits University Press 2013 (co-edited with Vishwas Satgar); End of the Developmental State? , Routledge 201 4 ' Hans-Jürgen Urban. Dr. phil. habil., is a member of the Executive Committee IG Metall, lecturer at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, and Permanent Markus Wissen works since 2012 as Professor for Social Sciences at the Fellow at the Kolleg Postwachstumsgesellschaften (Research Group on Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR). Since 2014 he is a rnember of Post-Growth Societies) at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. His research the editorial board of PROKLA: Zeitschri/i ./ür kritische Sozialu'issenschaft' interests are: theory of capitalism, political economy of the welfare state, union His research areas are: imperial mode of living, social-ecological transfor- revitalization, and labour policy. Recent publications include: 'Ausbruch aus mation, (auto)mobility, labour and ecology. Recent publications include: dem Gehäuse der European Governance: Überlegungen zu einer Soziologie The Limits to Capitalist Nature: Theorizing and Overcoming the Imperial der Wirtschaftsdemokratie in transformatorischer Absicht', Berliner Journal Mode of Living, Rowman & Littlefield 2018 (co-edited with Ulrich Brand); i.m globalen .fiir Soziologie.2S (l-2) 2018,91-122; 'Social Critique and Trade Unions - Imperiale Lebensweise: Zur Ausbeutttng von Mensch und Natur Outlines of a Troubled Relationship', in Klaus Dörre, Nicole Mayer-Ahuja. Kapitalismus, Oekom 20 17 (co-edited with Ulrich Brand); 'Territory and Dieter Sauer and Volker Wittke (eds), Capitalism and Labor: Towards Critical Historicity: Time and Space in Nicos Poulantzas's State Theory', in Lars Perspectives, Campus 2018.378-99; 'Ökologie der Arbeit: Ein noch offenes Bretthauer, Alexander Gallas, John Kannankulam and Ingo Stützle (eds). Feld der Gewerkschaften?', in Lothar Schröder and Hans-Jürgen Urban (eds), Reading Poulantzas, Merlin Press 20 I I , I 86-200. Gute Arbeit: Ökologie der Arbeit - Impulse fiir einen nachhaltigen (Jmbau, Bund Verlag 2018, 32949. Bernhard Weicht, Dr. habil, works at the Department of Sociology at the University of Innsbruck. He has studied economics in Vienna and social policy in Nottingham. He holds a PhD from the University of Nottingham where he researched the construction of care. Prior to joining the University of Innsbruck he held positions at Utrecht University and Leiden University College. Bernhard has published on ageing, care, dependency, migrant care workers and the intersection of regimes. He is the author of The Meaning of Care: The Social Construction of Care for Elderly People, Palgrave