Sebastian Guevara

Guevara, S. (2020). Transformaciones en las relaciones laborales y conflicto sindical: Formas concretas de la acumulación de capital en la industria automotriz argentina 1991-2015 [Transformations in labour relations and union struggle: concrete forms of capital accumulation in Argentinean automotive industry, 1991-2015]. In G. A. Pinto, S. Guevara, & A. Arteaga García (Eds.), La industria automotriz en América Latina: Estudios de las relaciones entre trabajo, tecnología y desarrollo socioeconómico (pp. 418-445). Editora UTFPR / Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.

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ABSTRACT Ever since the second half of the 20th century, the Argentinean automotive industry has been among those industrial sectors which most thoroughly express the specific form under which capital accumulation develops locally. In spite of a relative modernization during the 1990s, locally operating automotive capitals still feed their valorization process by the appropriation of … Read more

Fitzsimons, A. y Guevara, S. (2019). Argentina en la industria automotriz global: una discusión acerca de la comparación internacional de la productividad del trabajo [Argentina in the global automotive industry: a discussion about the international comparison of labor productivity]. Cuadernos de Economía Crítica 10(5), 43-70

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ABSTRACT In a recent issue in this journal, Pinazo, Córdoba and Dinerstein (2017) raised a discussion about the forms of development of the automotive industry in Argentina. These authors portray an image of an automotive industry with globally standardized products and export-oriented dynamics, explained by high levels of labor productivity and low labor costs. In contrast, from … Read more

Fitzsimons, A., & Guevara, S. (2018). The Argentine automotive industry and its sources of profit: a long-term analysis (1960-2013). América Latina en la Historia Económica, 25(1), 239-274.

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ABSTRACT This paper studies the historical development of the automotive industry in Argentina from 1960 to 2013. The main argument is that multinational companies operating locally had an specific or distinctive way of capital valorisation, vis à vis other national cases. This specificity was essentially the appropriation of agrarian ground rent by the automotive industrial … Read more