Yet those essays he finds provocative ask precisely the sorts of questions he criticizes as "hoary... questions of Marxist analysis," such as how a research situation can be cast "as a struggle between exploiters and exploited." For example, Jack Stauder shows that the original paradigm of anthropology arose from the British empire's need to stabilize the exploitation of its colonies. He argues that even the research done by the best-intentioned anthropologists still lends itself to use for imperialist control. Taking up the case of hazards in the chemical industry, Charlie Clutterbuck shows how the conflicts between capitalists and workers shape not only the type of technological hazards imposed, but also the types of research done, or not done, into those hazards.
In one essay Marschall disparages for stodginess, Simon Pickvane describes life in the world's most famous biology lab in a double sense: as the literal division of an organism ...
