ABSTRACT
This book explores the renewal of forms of capital accumulation and the institutions that shape it. It focuses on three main sources of accumulation: the extraction of profit through labor and the commodification of nature, financial speculation and the ways in which profit is converted into wealth. It thus offers a new understanding of the economic and political logics of capital accumulation within capitalism in the 21st century. It shows the recomposition of the sources of profit, from the traditional mechanisms of labor exploitation to the contemporary logics of speculation and dispossession. Bringing together the work of scholars who study the social fabric of capitalist accumulation, Accumulating Capital Today goes beyond disciplinary frontiers to describe how capital is accumulating in a world threatened by social and environmental collapse. This book heralds the emergence of "accumulation studies" and will be of interest to researchers in sociology, anthropology, politics, political economy, geography and economics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|63 pages
Accumulating through the Exploitation of Labour and Nature
chapter 1|20 pages
The dynamics of capital accumulation in managerial capitalism
chapter 2|14 pages
Dispossessive wage labour
chapter 3|14 pages
Between green growth and de-growth
part 2|57 pages
Accumulating through Financial Investment
chapter 5|12 pages
Constructing a favourable environment for financial accumulation
chapter 6|15 pages
Collective effort, private accumulation
part 3|45 pages
Accumulating through Digital Technologies
chapter 11|15 pages
Ghost management as a central feature of accumulation in corporate capitalism
part 4|56 pages
Accumulating through the Transformation of Profit into Personal Wealth