THE LONGER WORKING DAY/ABSOLUTE SURPLUS VALUE, AND THE DIALECTICS OF RACE AND CLASS
Speaker: Kevin B. Anderson, UCSB Professor and author of Marx at the Margins
Commentator: TBA
Sunday, November 5
6:15-8:00 PM
Art Share
801 East Fourth Place (Arts District)
Los Ángeles
(Free parking in lot across the street on Hewitt St. by the Aztec calendar)
Reading: Ch. 9, Ch. 10:5-7 of Capital I
Supplementary: Dunayevskaya, Marxism and Freedom, Ch. 5; Dustin Guastella, “Why We Should Demand a Shorter Workweek” (DSA 9-6-14)
http://www.dsausa.org/shorter_work_weeks
Topics: Accumulation of absolute surplus value by increasing the working day; workers struggle for shorter working day; slavery, racism and class divisions in the U.S., from the Civil War to today
Part of a seven-part series on CAPITAL
Sponsored by the West Coast Chapter, International Marxist-Humanist Organization
More information: <arise@internationalmarxisthumanist.org>
