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Broken-up Canada and Breaking-up Britain: Some Comparative Lessons in Uneven Development, Regionalism and Nationalism During the Current Crisis

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Political Action and Social Identity

Part of the book series: Explorations in Sociology ((EIS,volume 19))

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The unevenness of capitalism never ceases to amaze and confuse. The central unevenness is, of course, the immense wealth and control of the very few, the capitalist class, that is systematically expropriated from the combined labour power of the very many, the working class. Yet this fundamental and structured class-conflictual contradiction in capitalist social relations of production, the sytematic appropriation in social production of the surplus value created by the combined labour power of the many, never occurs straightforwardly. Systematic class exploitation is always actually mixed in with other systematic unevennesses: for example, by ‘gender’, by ‘race’, by ‘region’. No worker, no capitalist, no petty producer, no unemployed person is free from gender, race and region; is unaffected by their impacts.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Cardiff and in the Department of Town Planning at the University of Wales, Wales Institute of Science and Technology, Cardiff, UK

    Gareth Rees (Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at University College) (Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at University College)

  2. University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK

    Janet Bujra (Lecturer in the Department of Economic and Social History and Sociology) (Lecturer in the Department of Economic and Social History and Sociology)

  3. University of Glasgow, UK

    Paul Littlewood (Lecturer in the Department of Sociology) (Lecturer in the Department of Sociology)

  4. University of Essex, UK

    Howard Newby (Professor in the Department of Sociology and Director of the ESRC Survey Archive) (Professor in the Department of Sociology and Director of the ESRC Survey Archive)

  5. University College, Cardiff, UK

    Teresa L. Rees (Research Fellow in the Sociological Research Unit) (Research Fellow in the Sociological Research Unit)

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© 1985 Gareth Rees, Janet Bujra, Paul Littlewood, Howard Newby, and Teresa L. Rees

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Sacouman, R.J. (1985). Broken-up Canada and Breaking-up Britain: Some Comparative Lessons in Uneven Development, Regionalism and Nationalism During the Current Crisis. In: Rees, G., Bujra, J., Littlewood, P., Newby, H., Rees, T.L. (eds) Political Action and Social Identity. Explorations in Sociology, vol 19. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17847-6_4

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