Corporate Capital and the Integral State

Steve Maher’s new book, Corporate Capitalism and the Integral State: General Electric and a Century of American Power, develops an original conception of what Gramsci called the ‘integral state’. It … Watch video »

Steve Maher’s new book, Corporate Capitalism and the Integral State: General Electric and a Century of American Power, develops an original conception of what Gramsci called the ‘integral state’. It shows how state power has been critical for the development and evolution of corporate organization and American capitalism. This thesis is illustrated through the relationship between the American state over the centuries stretching from the 1880s to the 1980s.