Resenha: the transnational capitalist class

Towards A Global Ruling Class? Globalization and the Transnational Capitalist Class

A transnational capitalist class (TCC) has emerged as that segment of the world bourgeoisie that represents transnational capital, the owners of the leading worldwide means of production as embodied in the transnational corporations and private financial institutions. The spread of TNCs, the sharp increase in foreign direct investment, the proliferation of mergers and acquisitions across nation...

Working-Class Power, Capitalist-Class Interests, and Class Compromise1

This article proposes a general theoretical framework for understanding the concept of “class compromise” in terms of a “reverseJ” model of the relationship between the associational power of workers and the interests of capitalists: increases in working-class power adversely affect capitalist-class interests until such power crosses some intermediate threshold beyond which further increases in...

Red Shift: Class Effects of Socialist Egalitarianism and Capitalist Polarization

The tenth anniversary in 1999 of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and two years later of the collapse of the Soviet Union, provides a medium-term perspective from which to reflect on the nature of the societies of "actually existing socialism," and in particular on the economic position once held by their working classes. The need for such an examination gains added weight from the triumphalist dec...

The Capitalist Class and the State: Changing Roles of Busi- ness Interest Associations

On working-class environmentalism: a historical and transnational overview

The article reviews some of the available literature, in English, Italian and Portuguese, on work/environment relationships in historical perspective. I discuss the Environmental Justice (EJ) movement as the one most promising for pushing both the research agenda and public policy towards a better understanding of the connections between work and the environment. At the same time, I argue for t...