Frederick Harry Pitts
is Lecturer in Management at the School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol, UK.

Critically introduces readers to new readings of Marx's theory of value and critique of political economy for a contemporary age of crisis

Relates contemporary interpretations of Marx's work to their context within the wider development of Marxist theory, at a time of renewed interest and academic and political uptake

Interrogates prevailing optimism about the future of work in an age of machines and 'immaterial labour', conceptualizing what has changed and what has not about work and economic life under capitalism

1. Introduction: Marxian Value Theory in New Times.- 2. Value, Time and Abstract Labour.- 3. Money and the Exchange Abstraction.- 4. Labour in the Valorisation Process.- 5. Class, Critique and Capitalist Crisis.- 6. Immanence, Multitude and Empire.- 7. The Fragment on Machines.- 8. A Crisis of Measurability.- 9. Creative Industries and Commodity Exchange.- 10. Conclusion: From Postoperaismo to Postcapitalism.