Guevara, S. (2010a). La acción gremial de los trabajadores automotrices en Argentina, desde la posdevaluación hasta la crisis actual [The trade union action of the automotive workers in Argentina, from postdevaluation to the current crisis]. Latin American profiles, 18 (36), 121 – 141.

ABSTRACT This paper analyses the characteristics that shaped the actions of the employees of the automotive companies in Argentina during the growth process of the industry until the beginning of the current crisis, in order to contribute to the knowledge of the prospects and limitations of those actions. From the viewpoint of industrial relations, changes … Read more

Iñigo, L. (2011). Acumulación y relación capital-trabajo: La reproducción deficiente de la fuerza de trabajo [Accumulation and capital‐labour relation. Deficient labour force reproduction (Western Quilmes, 2001)]. (en colaboración con Salvia, S.) Trabajo y sociedad, (17), 95–104.

ABSTRACT From the mid-1970s and late 1990s, Argentina has undergone deep economic change, which can be described as a change in labour-capital relations of force. These changes boosted the development of the contradiction between working class productive abilities and the limitations to their realisation implied by capital accumulation process. This article aims at describing the … Read more

Guevara, S. (2011b). El MERCOSUR a la luz de la industria automotriz: integración productiva, intensificación del trabajo y acumulación de capital [MERCOSUR trough the light of the automotive industry: Productive integration, labor intensification and capital accumulation]. Studia Politicae, (23), 52–74.

ABSTRACT This paper presents the results of the research that crystallised in a doctoral thesis. The latter analysed the determination of the process of integration of automotive industry in Mercosur. From there analysed the conditions and prospects for political action in the region. In this analysis, we discover the effects of labour flexibility and the … Read more

Starosta, G. (2012b). El sistema de maquinaria y las determinaciones de la subjetividad revolucionaria en los Grundrisse y El Capital [The System of Machinery and Determinations of Revolutionary Subjectivity in the Grundrisse and Capital]. En G. Caligaris & A. Fitzsimons (Eds.), Relaciones económicas y políticas : aportes para el estudio de su unidad con base en la obra de Karl Marx (pp. 92–136). Buenos Aires: Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad de Buenos Aires.

ABSTRACT Este trabajo sintetiza los descubrimientos realizados por Marx sobre las determinaciones concretas de la organización social superadora del modo de producción capitalista bajo la forma potencial en que se presentan bajo el actual modo de producción. A través del análisis de lo planteado por Marx en cuanto a los cambios en la materialidad del … Read more

Iñigo, L. (2012). La determinación del salario individual [The determination of the individual wage]. En G. Caligaris & A. Fitzsimons (Eds.), Relaciones económicas y políticas. Aportes para el estudio de su unidad con base en la obra de Karl Marx (pp. 53-71). Buenos Aires: Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas.

ABSTRACT This chapter presents the individual salary as a moment in the unity of social production and consumption and summarises its main determinations. On this ground, it showed that the relative political power of the working class is determined by the need of capital to reproduce entirely the productive attributes of the labour-power, in relation … Read more

Fitzsimons, A. (2012b). Relaciones mercantiles y conciencia: una discusión a partir de los desarrollos de Marx sobre el fetichismo [Commodity relations and consciousness: a discussion based on Marx’s developments on fetishism]. En G. Caligaris & A. Fitzsimons (Eds.), Relaciones económicas y políticas. Aportes para el estudio de su unidad con base en la obra de Karl Marx (pp. 20–52). Buenos Aires: Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas.

ABSTRACT Marx´s exposition on the determination of consciousness regarding the general social relation of capitalist society in its simple form, the commodity form, is examined in this chapter. Through a detailed analysis of the commodity fetishism section, the unity between commodity as a social relation and the consciousness form of private producers is examined and … Read more

Fitzsimons, A. (2012a). Producción, relaciones sociales y valor: una crítica a la teoría del patrón de acumulación basado en la valorización financiera [Production, social relations and value: a critique to the theory of accumulation model based in financial valorization]. Revista Razón y Revolución, (24), 85–103.

ABSTRACT The article presents a critique of the concept of “financial valorization” which supports an important current of critical approaches to the path followed by the process of capital accumulation in Argentina between 1976 and 2001. Focusing on Eduardo Basualdo’s work, the article addresses the question about the source of the financial valorization and shows … Read more

Caligaris, G. (2012). Clases sociales, lucha de clases y Estado en el desarrollo de la crítica de la economía política [Social classes, class-struggle and state in the development of Marx´s critique of political economy]. En G. Caligaris & A. Fitzsimons (Eds.), Relaciones económicas y políticas. Aportes para el estudio de su unidad con base en la obra de Karl Marx (pp. 72–91). Buenos Aires: Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas.

ABSTRACT In this chapter, a critical and detailed reading chapter 10 of Marx´s Capital is presented. The main goal of this review is to expound the general explanation of social classes, class-struggle and state emerging from the development of Marx´s critique of political economy. Even it´s not specifically presented here, this reading opposes both to the … Read more

Guevara, S. (2012c). La lucha de clases en la industria automotriz del MERCOSUR y la reproducción de la acumulación de capital regional [Class struggle in MERCOSUR automotive industry and reproduction of regional capital accumulation]. Razón y Revolución, (23), 141-155

ABSTRACT In this paper, the author assumes the class struggle as the way developed by capitalist social relation through which the process of capital accumulation is played normally because through it resolves the sale value of the labor-power. This paper presents a synthetic development of this determination of the class struggle to analyse a particular … Read more

Guevara, S. (2012b). Trabajadores de la industria terminal automotriz del MERCOSUR: acciones ante la nueva etapa de la crisis de superproducción mundial del capital [Workers in the MERCOSUR automotive finishing industry: actions in the light of the new stage in the worldwide capital superproduction crisis]. Espacio abierto. Cuaderno Venezolano de Sociología, 21(1), 5-35.

ABSTRACT The work presented herein analyses the impact that the current global crisis is having on workers in the MERCOSUR auto industry and on the sector in general. The study will systematise and analyse information generated by business and union organisations on the effect of the crisis in terms of production, sales and employment and … Read more