BEN FINE IS WELL KNOWN in Marxian and radical cirdes for his research, his teaching at Birkbeck College and SOAS, and his involvement with the CSE. A superficial look at Fine's publications gives the impression that his intellectual trajectory is badly fragmented. Fine seems to have abandoned his highly acclaimed (by Marxists) work on value theory in the mid-80s (especially Fine and Harris, 1979, and Fine 1980, 1982, 1986; see, however, Fine, 1989 (1st ed. 1975), 1990a, 1992a), in order to pursue a disparate collection of ‘softer’ themes such as the South African industrialisation (Fine and Rustomjee, 1997), the contemporary British economy (Fine and Harris, 1985), the history of the British coal industry (Fine, 1990b), female participation in the labour market (Fine, 1992b), and labour market theory and the political economy of food and consumption (in the books discussed below).
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Cockburn, Alexander (1996) ‘A Short History of Meat’, in New Left Review 215, January-February.
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