A general theory of exploitation and class / John E Roemer.

Introduction, 1 -- 1. A crisis in Marxism, 2 -- 2. A general theory of exploitation, 6 -- 3. A simple model of Marxian exploitation, 8 -- 4. A brief outline, 12 -- 5. A defense of method, 23 -- Part I. Exploitation and Class in Subsistence Economies, 25 -- 1. Exploitation in a Precapitalist Subsistence Economy, 28 -- 2. The labor market and the emergence of class, 61 -- 3. The functional equivalence of labor and credit markets, 87 -- Part II. Exploitation and class in an accumulating economy, 107 -- 4. The class exploitation correspondence principle, 113 -- 5. The dependence of labor value on the market, 147 -- 6. Marxian exploitation and heterogeneous labor, 174 -- Part III. Exploitation, socialism, and historical materialism, 189 -- 7. A general definition and taxonomy of exploitation, 194 -- 8. Exploitation in existing Socialism, 238 -- 9. Links with historical materialism, 264 -- References, 291 -- Index, 295.