This book is unified by a concern to reassert the pivotal importance of Marx's theory of labour-value-'the labour theory of value, ' as it is more commonly known-to an understanding of our social world and its historical development.

Murray E.G. Smith is a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at Brock University. He is the author of Invisible Leviathan: The Marxist Critique of Market Despotism beyond Postmodernism (University of Toronto Press).