The Economic and Labour Relations Review Volume 20 Number 2 July 2010 Contents Symposium: Is Labour a Commodity? The Trouble with Labour Guest Editors: Yanis Varoufakis and Dimitria Groutsis 1 Metamorphoses: The Concept of Labour in the History of Political Economy Nicholas J. Theocarakis 7 Adam Smith and the Labour Contract: Is Labour Exchange Analogous to Commodity Exchange? Tony Aspromourgos 39 The Duality of Labour and the Financial Crisis Dick Bryan 49 Psychologising the Subject: HRM, Commodiication, and the Objectiication of Labour John Shields and David Grant 61 Managing Diverse Commodities? From Factory Fodder to Business Asset Lucy Taksa and Dimitria Groutsis 77 Globalisation and the Commodiication of Labour: Temporary Labour Migration Stuart Rosewarne 99 From Blackbirds to Guestworkers in the South Paciic. Plus ça change … ? John Connell 111 From Terranova to Terra Firma: A Critique of the Role of Free Labour and the Digital Economy Diane van den Broek 123