Diferenciation of worker’s subjetivity

Iñigo, L. (2021). Las transformaciones de la escolaridad como formas concretas del movimiento de la materialidad de la producción de la vida social. Automatización de los procesos de trabajo y generalización de la lectura [The transformation of schooling as concrete form of the movement of the materiality of social life production]. Educación, Lenguaje y Sociedad, 18(18), 1-31.

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ABSTRACT: The article puts forward a set of arguments as grounds to approach two global tendencies that have been described by the ‘world society’ theory: the expansion of secondary education starting the second half of the 20th century, and the standardization of its curriculum with a preeminence of reading comprehension and, more generally, the ability … Read more

Pérez Trento, N., & Starosta, G. (2020). En torno al rol de la Argentina en la Nueva División Internacional del Trabajo. [On the role of Argentina in the New International Division of Labour]. Voces del Fénix, 80, 48–55.

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ABSTRACT With the consolidation of the capitalist mode of production, the process of social reproduction takes on a global character. Still, differences among the roles played by diverse countries are apparent. In this work, the authors offer a perspective on the role that Argentina plays in the process of global production, focusing especially on the … Read more

Seiffer, T., & Rivas Castro, G. (2017). La política social como forma de reproducción de la especificidad histórica de la acumulación de capital en Argentina (2003-2016) [The social policy as form of the historical specificity of capital accumulation reproduction in Argentina (2003-2016)]. Estudios del trabajo, (54), 91–117.

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ABSTRACT The period of Kirchnerist governments (2003-2015) meant record growth in terms of spending on social policies. It was presented as one of the evidences of a change in the relationship between market and state. Macri’s government (2015-present), with its policy of adjustment, appears as its counterpart. The common explanatory element in the analyses lies … Read more

Starosta, G., & Fitzsimons, A. (2018). Rethinking the determination of the value of labor power. Review of Radical Political Economics, 50(1), 99–115.

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ABSTRACT This article critically examines the received wisdom on the value of labor power that posits the workers’ material reproduction and the class struggle as two independent factors that determine the bundle of wage-goods consumed by the working class. It shows that this reading has no solid textual basis on Marx’s writings. Furthermore, it argues … Read more

Grinberg, N. (2018). Institutions and Capitalist Development: A Critique of the New Institutional Economics. Science & Society, 82(2), 203-233.

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ABSTRACT New Institutional Economics (NIE) is a branch of neoclassical economics that regards the institutional setting of exchange (markets) as the key force accounting for differences in nations’ economic performance. Though originally focused on economic institutions, this approach has paid increasing attention to the political institutions giving birth to the former. Why Nations Fail? by … Read more

Charnock, G., & Starosta, G. (2018). Towards a “Unified Field Theory” of Uneven Development: Human Productive Subjectivity, Capital and the International. Global Society, 32(3), 324-343.

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ABSTRACT This article puts labour, and its historically changing forms of existence, at the centre of the theorisation of uneven international development. It advocates a consciously dialectical approach that goes beyond significant limitations in historical-geographical materialism, and in the work of Neil Smith in particular. It argues, first, that geopolitical modes of explanation cannot be … Read more

Caligaris, G., & Starosta, G. (2018). The determination of the “historical and moral component” of the value of labour-power. Caderno CRH, 31(82), 135–150.

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ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to challenge the prevailing Marxist interpretation of what Marx called the “historical and moral component” of the value of labour-power, and to offer an alternative reading which is consistent with the foundations of the critique of political economy. In order to do so, the first part of the … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2003a). Chapter 01. La razón histórica de existir del modo de producción capitalista y la determinación de la clase obrera como sujeto revolucionario

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Chapter 1 from “El capital: razón histórica, sujeto revolucionario y conciencia”. DOWNLOAD PDF (only available in spanish)

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2003a). Chapter 02. Transformaciones en la acumulación de capital. De la producción nacional del obrera universal a la fragmentación internacional de la subjetividad productiva de la clase obrera

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Chapter 2 from “El Capital: razón histórica, sujeto revolucionario y conciencia” DOWNLOAD  PDF (only available in spanish)

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2007d). La détermination historique du mode de production capitaliste et de la classe ouvrière comme sujet révolutionnaire face à la fragmentation actuelle de la subjectivité productive de la force de travail. Presentado en el Congrès Marx International V, Université de Paris-X Nanterre.

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ABSTRACT Le capitalisme est le développement de la subjectivité humaine en transformant les puissances productives du travail libre individuel en ceux du travail social consciemment organisé par le travailleur collectif qui l´effectue comme travail privé. La classe ouvrière fait face à son produit propre, la capacité pour organiser scientifiquement la production, comme une puissance aliénée. … Read more