Abstract
This book contains eight articles (chapters two through nine) that have previously appeared as articles in this online journal plus an introductory chapter and a concluding reflective chapter by the editor. The introduction effectively situates the work contained in a broader scholarly context, of which more below, while the conclusion provides an engaging commentary on the contemporary significance and deep challenges faced by politically engaged academic work. Broadly speaking the chapters move across a series of empirical case studies of corporate class power covering the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex, the expansion the category of Billionaire, Transnational Capital’s role in U.S. interventionism in the Persian Gulf, Fake News and Social Media in the Case of Bell Pottinger, Canadian Imperialism in the Caribbean, and the Transition from the Lomé trade accords to CARIFORUM-EU EPA. The last few chapters trend broadly to a more theoretical framework as chapter eight focuses on the systemic necessity of poverty in even the most developed capitalist countries (Here described as “High-Income Countries” and chapter nine develops a critique of the concept of Neoliberalism in Action. This review will comment on each in turn before concluding on the broader contribution that this volume might represent.
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Skidmore-Hess, Daniel J.
(2024)
"“Capitalism and Class Power” by Ronald W. Cox (Ed.), (Brill, 2023). A Review,"
Class, Race and Corporate Power: Vol. 12:
Iss.
2, Article 3.
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