Books

The Routledge Handbook of Commodification, Elodie Bertrand and Vida Panitch, eds.

(London: Routledge, 2023). Find it here

This volume identifies commodification theory as a scholarly field of inquiry unto itself, and aims to build bridges across the disciplines in which many different commodification theorists have remained siloed. The goal was to put them into dialogue with one another to produce a work that demonstrates the richness of interdisciplinary investigations into the trenchant questions of commodification theory, namely, how to identify noxious markets and what to do about them.

Contributors include: Margaret J. Radin, Laurie Shrage, Jason Brennan, Peter M. Jaworski, Stephen Wilkinson, Kimberly D. Krawiec, Martha C. Ertman, Adrian Walsh, Jennifer Nedelsky, Harry Brighouse, L. Chad Horne, Michael J. Kessler, and others.

Exploitation: From Practice to Theory, Monique Deveaux and Vida Panitch, eds.

(London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017). Find it here

This book explores the challenges facing both systemic (Marxist) and transactional (Liberal) conceptions of exploitation and takes the view that neither approach is universally appropriate to analysing exploitative relations in our non-ideal world. Instead, we need to begin from our considered judgments about when exploitation has occurred, and then draw on the theoretical framework most appropriate to resolution in favour of the exploited party or class.

Contributors include: Charles W. Mills, Waheed Hussein, Anne Phillips, Ruth Sample, Richard Miller, Jeremy Snyder, and others.