This book introduces new approaches that deploy concepts from Marx's critique of political economy to renew the study of labour, value and social antagonisms in the broad area of management and organisation studies.

Frederick Harry Pitts is Senior Lecturer in Work, Employment, Organisation and Public Policy at University of Bristol, UK.

1. Introduction: From Critical Management Studies to the Critique of Political Economy 2. Into the Hidden Abode: From the Labour Process to the Valorisation Process 3. Beyond the Hidden Abode: From Class Composition to the Crisis of Value 4. Behind the Hidden Abode: From Primitive Accumulation to the Metabolic Rift 5. Conclusion: From the Politics of Value to the Politics of Work