Marxist Political Economy and the Environment

A Companion to Environmental Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 266-293

  Henderson, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological Marxism; Energy return on energy input (EROEI); Fossil fuels and industrial capitalism; Labor man and nature participate; Labour process capitalists control workers; Species being labour and its mixing with non human matter; Value versus wealth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862306986     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444305722.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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