Intro
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
Why a Marxist Critique of Theories of Collective Action and Social Movements Is Significant?
The Roads to a Marxist Theory of Class Struggle
The Legacy of Classical Marxism
Class Struggle as a Theoretical Object
Antecedents of a Marxist Critique of Collective Action and Social Movements Theories
Presentation of the Content in This Volume
References
Chapter 2: From the Critique of Collective Action Theories to the Study of Political Class Composition
Introduction

From the Critique of the Theories on Collective Action to the Development of Dimensions for the Analysis of Processes of Political Class Composition/Decomposition
Possibilities and Limits
From Technical Composition to Political Composition: Social Infrastructure, Mobilization and Organization as Process Dimensions
Conclusions
References
Chapter 3: Class Formation and Collective Action from a Marxist Perspective
Introduction
Background
Socialisation and Individualisation in Marxism
The Productive Forces
The State
Power, Solidarity and Mobilisation
Conclusions

Chapter 5: The Denial of Social Classes in the Theory of Collective Contentious Action
An Example: 1848
Marx and the Theory of Collective Action
Marx's and Engels' Concept of Social Classes
Society Versus Individuals
Form and Content
Individuals and Class Interest
References
Chapter 6: On Dignity: Reflections on the Rationality of Insurrectional Actions
Introduction
From Consciousness to Action (and Vice Versa)
On Collective Action (and Its Rationality)
Some Concluding Remarks
References
Chapter 7: A Marxist Perspective on Workers' Collective Action

Introduction
Mobilization Theory: A Critique
A Return to the Labour Process
Cooperation, Solidarity and Workers' Collective Action
Conclusions and Implications for Empirical Analysis
References
Chapter 8: Work, Reproduction and Informality: Challenges for a Marxist Politics of Labour
Informal Labour
Reproductive Labour
Bringing the Concepts Together
References
Chapter 9: Gramsci, Theoretician of Political Subjectivation: The Subalternity-Autonomy-Hegemony Triad
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References