https://www.frederickharrypitts.com/about daily 1.0 2026-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7af905f407b4254385910e/94e6a758-a876-4d8d-ab51-4314039fba15/Harry+Pitts+2022+Headshot+B%26W.jpg Bio https://www.frederickharrypitts.com/articles daily 0.75 2025-09-21 https://www.frederickharrypitts.com/critiquing-capitalism-today-new-ways-to-read-marx daily 0.75 2021-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7af905f407b4254385910e/1534801674074-JTJX4EZ0O23FV6DO2FI3/Book+cover1.jpg Critiquing Capitalism Today: New Ways to Read Marx - This book critically introduces two compelling contemporary schools of Marxian thought: the New Reading of Marx of Michael Heinrich and Werner Bonefeld, and the postoperaismo of Antonio Negri. Each stake novel claims on Marx’s value theory, the first revisiting key categories of the critique of political economy through Frankfurt School critical theory, the second calling the law of value into crisis with reference to Marx’s rediscovered Fragment on Machines. Today, ‘postcapitalist’ conceptualisations of a changing workplace excite interest in postoperaist projections of a crisis of measurability sparked by so-called immaterial labour. Using the New Reading of Marx to question this prospectus, Critiquing Capitalism Today clarifies complex debates for newcomers to these cutting-edge currents of critical thought, looking anew at value, money, labour, class and crisis. https://www.frederickharrypitts.com/corbynism-a-critical-approach daily 0.75 2020-09-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7af905f407b4254385910e/1534840339682-T1BKLP090536KP7CKE4W/51sESZK-RKL._SX323_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg Corbynism: A Critical Approach - From the moment Jeremy Corbyn was elected Labour leader, Corbynism has been dismissed, derided or romanticised - but rarely taken seriously as a set of ideas on its own terms. From a left perspective, this book critically outlines the shared understanding of capitalism and its alternatives that unites the component parts of the Corbyn movement. Bypassing arguments over electability undermined by the 2017 election, Corbynism: A Critical Approach decodes the central tenets of the Corbynist worldview, showing their coherence with contemporary political-economic shifts. Corbyn’s platform of protectionism at home and isolationism abroad, it contends, chimes with conspiratorial understandings of global capitalism as a ‘rigged system’ common to populist nativism in an age of Trump and Brexit. https://www.frederickharrypitts.com/media daily 0.75 2026-02-22 https://www.frederickharrypitts.com/reports-and-other daily 0.75 2026-01-26 https://www.frederickharrypitts.com/book-reviews-review-articles daily 0.75 2023-08-13 https://www.frederickharrypitts.com/interviews daily 0.75 2023-09-10 https://www.frederickharrypitts.com/value daily 0.75 2021-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7af905f407b4254385910e/1584696830347-SZ2GEDLW3GUH4HMIT1RD/Value+cover.jpg Value - ‘ 'Value' seems like an elusive and abstract concept. Nonetheless, notions of value underpin how we understand our lives, from discussions about the economic contribution of different kinds of work and productive activity, to the prices we pay for the things we consume. So what is value, and where does it come from? In this new book, Frederick Harry Pitts charts the past, present and future of value within and beyond capitalist society, critically engaging with key concepts from classical and neoclassical political economy. Interrogating the processes and practices that attribute value to objects and activities, he considers debates over whether value lies within commodities or in their exchange, the politics of different theories of value, and how we measure value in a knowledge-based economy. This accessible and intriguing introduction to the complexities of value in modern society will be essential reading for any student or scholar working in political economy, economics, economic sociology or management. https://www.frederickharrypitts.com/postcapitalismandthepoliticsofwork daily 0.75 2020-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7af905f407b4254385910e/1585738735176-8CG8SICWJLWA7R5YKU33/256x256bb.jpg Postcapitalism & the Politics of Work - This special issue introduces and unpicks some of the intellectual wiring behind the emerging thinking on postcapitalism and the post-work society on the contemporary left. The first part considers the empirical claims made around the changing face of work and economic life in contemporary capitalism and the potential for a postcapitalist or post-work alternatives. The second part considers the wider political underpinnings and consequences of this vision of capitalism and its transformation. Read the introduction to the Special Issue here. https://www.frederickharrypitts.com/a-world-beyond-work daily 0.75 2021-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7af905f407b4254385910e/1587760995282-QGXMV6JOWJOPIUSMIV4J/Dinerstein+Pitts+2020+A+World+Beyond+Work+COVER.jpg A World Beyond Work? - Sensing a world of post-work opportunity lurking in an age of crisis, today ‘postcapitalist’ utopias proliferate that see a way out of the present through an escape from work. Using critical theory to unpick the political economy of contemporary work and its futures, this book mounts a forceful critique of fashionable thinking about the possibility of achieving a postcapitalist society through the automation of production, a universal basic income and the reduction of working hours to zero. A World Beyond Work? reveals how these transitional measures break insufficiently with key features of capitalist society: value, money, the class relation and the state. By displacing workers from the sites and relationships through which they struggle and resist as wage labour, Dinerstein and Pitts contend, these measures may even stifle the capacity for transformative social change in, against and beyond capitalism. The authors propose an alternative that navigates the contradictions of social reproduction under capitalism through the construction of ‘concrete utopias’ that shape and anticipate non-capitalist futures. https://www.frederickharrypitts.com/rhythmanalysis daily 0.75 2021-01-25 https://www.frederickharrypitts.com/marx-in-management-and-organisation-studies daily 0.75 2022-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7af905f407b4254385910e/1949d1f1-b309-422f-89a5-d9696fed684b/Screenshot+2022-12-11+193806.png Marx in Management & Organisation Studies - This book introduces new approaches that deploy concepts from Marx’s critique of political economy to renew the study of labour, value and social antagonisms in the broad area of management and organisation studies. Exploring established and emergent strands of Marxian theorising inside and outside management and organisation studies, it delves into, beyond and behind the ‘hidden abode’ of production to examine a range of issues including: the relationship between the workplace and the market; the relationship between conflicts at work and wider social and political movements; the role of class, gender and race in capitalist society; and the interconnection of work and labour with the environmental crisis. The book will be of interest for academics, postgraduate students and researchers interested in radical perspectives on work, organisation and economic life. Representing both a critical introduction to existing theories and a theoretical contribution to the development of the field of study in its own right, it condenses challenging ideas into a short, readable volume without losing their complexity or sophistication. https://www.frederickharrypitts.com/chapters daily 0.75 2025-11-30 https://www.frederickharrypitts.com/the-handbook-for-the-future-of-work daily 0.75 2025-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b7af905f407b4254385910e/c03eb5a7-9bdd-4c29-a98b-7ea4b186f32b/GaAXdKjXUAANmNB.jpeg The Handbook for the Future of Work - The Handbook for the Future of Work offers a timely and critical analysis of the transformative forces shaping work and employment in the twenty-first century. Focusing on the past two decades, the handbook explores how technological advancements, automation and a shifting capitalist landscape have fundamentally reshaped work practices and labour relations. Beyond simply outlining the challenges and opportunities of automation, the handbook integrates these emerging realities with established discussions of work. Importantly, it moves beyond dominant technology-centric narratives, probing into broader questions about the nature of capitalism in a time of crisis and the contestation for alternative economic models. With contributions from established and emerging authors, based in institutions around the world, the handbook offers a systematic overview of the developments that have sparked radical shifts in how we live and work, and their multifaceted impacts upon social relations and identities, practices and sectors, politics and environments.