1834 Poor Law 134
1968, role of migrant workers in 173; 1968-75 wave of industrial struggles 3 31
Abalkin, on Soviet strikes 209
Absolute surplus value 33, 73
Abstract labour 26
Abstraction in three volumes of Capital 87
Accumulation and competition 35-6, 58, 85, 99, 1 16; and exploitation 37; and crisis 58, 60, 62, 101, 204, 217; and rate of profit 37-39, 69- 72, 77-78; for the sake of accumulation 36, 84; never ending 52; and class 107, 1 13-1 15; and logic of state 1 12-1 17; and USSR 158; and crisis in USSR 204; in China in early 2000s 245-6; and consumption in China in early 2000s 246 (graph 247); and crises of Eastern bloc 179; and corruption and repression 222; structures of and energy use 316 see also Capital accumulation
Accumulation of Capital, The (Rosa Luxemburg) 99
Advertising, as unproductive 121; expenditure, US in 1920s 147
Afghanistan, US occupation of 273, 327
Africa, loss of markets to China 222; growing Chinese influence in 274; rivalry between French and US interests 2 70; fall in real wages 340-1
"African socialism", disappointment with 218
"After Japan" 211
Aganbegyan, Abel, on stagnation in Soviet economy 203
Agenda 2010 Programme in Germany 240
Aglietta, Michael see Boyer, Robert
Agribusiness and agricultural technological advance 321
Agricultural accumulation, structure of 321
Agricultural capitalists 34 7
Agriculture, movement of workforce to towns, during long boom 173; investment, 322; declining growth of output 321
Alavi, Hamza, role played by middle peasants in peasant movements 348; with Teodor Shanin, on ways peasantry are integrated into capitalism 347
Alfa 221
Algeria 185
Alienated labour, system of 328
Alienation 13, 14, 28, 83
Alvater, Elmer, on German state and economy in long boom 170
American Free Trade Area 221
Amnesia of mainstream economic commentators 253
Andropov, Yuri, experience of East European crises and role in appointing Gorbachev 207
Angell, Norman, on capitalism's drive for peace 92
"Anglo-Saxon capitalism" 229, 294
Angola 185
Arab-Israeli War of 1967 184; of October 1973 1 84, 191
Argentina 188, 351; industrial development before First World, 187; industrial growth in 1950s and 1 960s; compared with Italy 1 88; economic and political crises of 1 970s 218; crisis of 2001-2 224
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