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Ira Cohen interweaves a detailed study of Anthony Giddens' writings on structuration theory with independent arguments and original concepts to provide a comprehensive analysis of structuration theory's new approach to the subject matter of the social sciences. Cohen clarifies the ontological status of structuration theory, and emphasizes the centrality of social praxis to Giddens' thought. He includes a critique of social morphology, illuminating structuration theory's concern for the reproduction and articulation of social systems across time and space. Giddens' insights into system reproduction, power and domination, and social structure are clarified, criticized and extended

Intro -- Marx and Modernity: Key Readings and Commentary -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- General Editor's Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Marx and Modernity -- SECTION I MARX READINGS -- Part 1 Marx's Vision of History: "Historical Materialism" -- 1 Primary Historical Relations, or The Basic Aspects of Social Activity (with Engels) -- 2 The Ruling Class and the Ruling Ideas . . . (with Engels) -- 3 The Formation of Classes . . . (with Engels) -- 4 Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy -- 5 Labour Rent -- 6 Karl Marx (Engels) -- 7 Letter to Joseph Bloch (Engels) -- Part 2 The Juggernaut of Capitalist Modernity: The Revolutionary Bourgeoisie, the End of Tradition, and New Social Powers -- 8 The Secret of Primitive Accumulation -- 9 Development of the Division of Labour (with Engels) -- 10 Bourgeois and Proletarians (with Engels) -- 11 Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation -- 12 Co-operation -- 13 Cardinal Facts of Capitalist Production -- Part 3 Marx's Labor Theory of Value: The Hidden Social Relationship beneath Capitalism's Distorted "Economic" Surface -- 14 The Two Factors of a Commodity: Use Value and Value -- 15 From Value, Price and Profit -- 16 The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof -- 17 The General Formula for Capital -- Part 4 From Manufacture to Modern Industry: The First and Second Industrial Revolutions -- 18 Division of Labour and Manufacture -- 19 Machinery and Modern Industry -- Part 5 The Downside of Capitalist Growth: Overpopulation, Poverty, Speculative Crises, and Environmental Devastation -- 20 The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation -- 21 The Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall -- 22 Progressive Production of a Relative Surplus Population or Industrial Reserve Army -- 23 The Increase of Lunacy in Great Britain -- 24 The Economic Crisis in Europe.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- PART ONE HOUSEHOLD, CLAN, VILLAGE AND MANOR -- CHAPTER I. AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATION AND THE PROBLEM OF AGRARIAN COMMUNISM -- CHAPTER II. PROPERTY SYSTEMS AND SOCIAL GROUPS -- CHAPTER III. The 0RIGIN OF SEIGNIORIAL PROPRIETORSHIP -- CHAPTER IV. THE MANOR -- CHAPTER V. THE POSITION OF THE PEASANTS IN VAEIOUS WESTERN COUNTRIES BEFORE THE ENTRANCE OF CAPITALISM -- CHAPTER VI CAPITALISTIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE MANOR -- PART TWO INDUSTRY AND MINING DOWN TO THE BEGINNING OF THE CAPITALISTIC DEVELOPMENT -- CHAPTER VII. PRINCIPAL FORMS OF THE ECONOMIC OR-GANIZATION OF INDUSTRY -- CHAPTER VIII. STAGES IN THE DEVELOPlllENT OF INDUSTRY AND MINING -- CHAPTER IX. THE CRAFT GUILDS -- CHAPTER X. THE ORIGIN OF THE EUROPEAN GUILDS -- CHAPTER XI. DISINTEGRATION OF THE GUILDS AND DEVEL- OPMENT OF THE DOMESTIC SYSTEM -- CHAPTER XII. SHOP PRODUCTION. THE FACTORY AND ITS FORE-RUNNERS -- CHAPTER XIII. MINING PRIOR TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN CAPITALISM -- PART THREE COMMERCE AND EXCHANGE IN THE PRE-CAPITALISTIC AGE -- CHAPTER XIV. POINTS OF DEPARTURE IN THE DEVELOP-MENT OF COMMERCE -- CHAPTER XV. TECHNICAL REQUISITES FOR THE TRANSPORTATION OF GOODS -- CHAPTER XVI. FORMS OF ORGANIZATION OF TRANSPORTA- TION AND OF COMMERCE -- CHAPTER XVII. FORMS OF COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE -- CHAPTER XVIII. MERCANTILE GUILDS -- CHAPTER XIX MONEY AND MONETARY HISTORY -- CHAPTER XX. BANKING AND DEALINGS IN MONEY IN THE PRE-CAPITALISTIC AGE -- CHAPTER XXI. INTERESTS IN THE PRE-CAPITALISTIC PERIOD -- PART FOUR THE ORIGIN OF MODERN CAPITALISM -- CHAPTER XXII. THE MEANING AND PRESUPPOSITIONS OF MODERN CAPITALISM -- CHAPTER XXIII. THE ExTERNAL FACTS IN THE EVOLUTION OF CAPITALISM -- CHAPTER XXIV. THE FIRST GREAT SPECULATIVE CRISES -- CHAPTER XXV. FREE WHOLESALE TRADE