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It relates to the theoretical and political priorities of Marxist and other radical research which govern the relative attention given to different kinds of economic activity and person. Perhaps the most general of these priorities is now being challenged by feminist research: the priority of paid over unpaid work. Another is the neglect of services, again possibly reinforced by sexist biases with regard to what are considered to be “real” jobs. But even within manufacturing studies, certain biases are clear: (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) towards basic standardized mass production and assembly, and away from custom and small batch production, and project production (for example, civil engineering production); a slight bias towards consumer industries and away from producer industries, or a tendency to assume that the second are no different from the first; towards manual work, away from clerical and administrative work, away from management, research and development, and marketing (consequently, laborprocess studies tend to reduce the diverse kinds of labor process going on in a plant to one central stage of manufacture, ignoring prior and subsequent manual work and ignoring administrative labor processes); towards the bottom of the status hierarchy; towards declining regions and localities and away from relatively prosperous ones; towards the more radical kinds of worker and region, and towards combative industrial relations.
By the early 1990s the intellectual heft of Marxian theory seemed to be terminally in decline. But some undergraduates still continue to take the Capital course. For most of them this is no longer a political act. The fear of communism has largely dissipated. The course has a good reputation. A few students are curious to see what all the fuss with Marxism was about. And a few still have some radical instincts left to which they feel Marx might add an extra insight or two. So, depending on their timetable and their requirements, some undergraduates end up in Marx’s Capital rather than in Aristotle’s Ethics or Plato’s Republic.
At both spatial scales many researchers have recently shifted from theoretical exegesis to empirical application, with the result that we can now begin to see more clearly how the theories work in practice. The misgivings voiced here about their adequacy have been developed in the course of ongoing research on the electronics industry and regional development which I have undertaken with Kevin Morgan. In this paper, I shall outline a critique and illustrate the points with empirical examples from this concrete research.