Book launch: Marketization by Ian Greer & Charles Umney

26th May 2023 5pm - 7pm

Greenwich Campus

University of Greenwich, Queen Anne Court, Room QA080 and QA077 SE10 9LS

We are delighted to welcome Professor Ian Greer (Cornell) and Professor Charles Umney (University of Leeds), both formerly of Greenwich Business School, for the exclusive book launch of 'Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy'.

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Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy

How do markets function? Who creates, shapes and organizes them? And what do they mean for the relationship between labour and capital?

Marketization examines how the state and capital use markets to discipline the working class. Ian Greer and Charles Umney provide a comprehensive overview of the European political economy, from the European Commission to the workplace, to show how neoliberal principles translate into market mechanisms and reshape the lives of workers.

Drawing on dozens of conversations with policymakers, administrators, businesses, workers, and trade unionists across many European countries, Greer and Umney unpack marketization. They go beyond liberal theories that see markets as natural forms of economic organization and broad-brush left critiques of neoliberalism, looking behind the scenes in the current European political economy to examine the practicalities of how markets are created and manipulated by employers, policymakers and bureaucrats in pursuit of greater profitability. Far from leading to greater freedom, these processes often override the rights of individuals, degrade the status and security of workers, and undermine democratic accountability.

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