C. Ritchie writes with verve and insight from the standpoint of a worker who grew up in the closing years of the 20th century up and reached a full understanding of the world of work in capitalist society in the 21st.
His starting point is the living reality of millions of people who enter a labour market not, on the surface, much like that of their parents and seemingly remote from the 19th century when Karl Marx analysed capitalist society.
