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Conceptualizing unemployment in a period of atypical employment: A critical realist perspective (2001)
Journal Article
Fleetwood, S. (2001). Conceptualizing unemployment in a period of atypical employment: A critical realist perspective. Review of Social Economy, 59(1), 65-69. https://doi.org/10.1080/00346760010017500

An adequate conceptualization and measurement of unemployment should express the reality of employment. Designing theoretical concepts that adequately express reality requires appropriate methodological foundations. This paper uses critical realism t... Read More about Conceptualizing unemployment in a period of atypical employment: A critical realist perspective.

What Kind of Theory is Marx's Labour Theory of Value? A Critical Realist Inquiry (2001)
Journal Article
Fleetwood, S. (2001). What Kind of Theory is Marx's Labour Theory of Value? A Critical Realist Inquiry. Capital and Class, 25(1), 41-77. https://doi.org/10.1177/030981680107300104

This paper uses critical realism to reflect upon the issue of theory in Marx's Labour Theory of Value (LTV). Like any theory, the LTV is rooted in a mode of theorisation. Rooting the LTV in an inappropriate (deductivist) mode of theorisation encourag... Read More about What Kind of Theory is Marx's Labour Theory of Value? A Critical Realist Inquiry.