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What is the working class under present circumstances and in particular in urban lives? David Harvey explains how the concept of the working class is still suitable for the current organization of work – even if working conditions changed, now being more service-oriented and diffused. Harvey further discusses how this diffused working class can organize via urban neighbourhoods. 2015 Level: beginner The Revolutionary Class Today David Harvey TV Boitempo This multimedia dossier explores the production chain of smartphones. In particular due to the violation of workers' rights and low payments, the author Benjamin Selwyn calls those production structures global poverty chains. In this context, he points to the importance of workers' struggles. 2016 Level: beginner Production Chain of Smartphones Benjamin Selwyn I-PEEL This presentation looks at the basic idea of Marxism, specifically the conflict between the different classes in society. 2013 Level: beginner A Brief Introduction to Marxism The Curious Classroom YouTube Source image GC Videography Fellows Youtube channel David Harvey davidharvey org City University of New York Level: advanced Marx and Capital: The Concept, The Book, The History David Harvey City University of New York The climate crisis is not primarily a problem of ‘believing science’ or individual ‘carbon footprints’ – it is a class problem rooted in who owns, controls and profits from material production. As such, it will take a class struggle to solve. In this ground breaking class analysis, Matthew T. Huber argues that the carbon-intensive capitalist class must be confronted for producing climate change. 2022 Level: beginner Climate Change as Class War Matthew T. Huber Verso Books

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