Automotive industry

Dachevsky, F., & Kornblihtt, J. (2020). La apropiación de renta de la tierra petrolera por el capital automotriz en Venezuela durante el chavismo y su crisis [The appropriation of oil ground-rent by automotive capitals in Venezuela along Chavism, and its crisis]. 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. 272-298). Editora UTFPR / Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.

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Fitzsimons, A. (2020). Fases del desarrollo de la industria automotriz argentina: Determinantes globales y especificidad nacional (1914-2017) [Phases in the development of Argentinean automotive industry: global determinants and national specificity (1914-2017)]. En 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. 57-80). Editora UTFPR / Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.

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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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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

Fitzsimons, A., & Guevara, S. (2016). Transnational Corporations and the “Restructuring” of the Argentine Automotive Industry: Change or Continuity? En G. Charnock & G. Starosta (Eds.), The New International Division of Labour (pp. 183–213). Palgrave.

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ABSTRACT This paper studies the historical development of the Argentine automotive industry since the mid-50s to the present. It argues that, first, the peculiar characteristics of low scales of production, obsolete technology and the resulting low global competitiveness of the local auto industry in its initial stages were determined by the specific form of capital … Read more

Guevara, S. (2010b). Poulantzas y la determinación del Estado capitalista: una discusión a partir de la integración industrial en el Mercosur [Poulantzas and the determination of the capitalist state: a discussion based on industrial integration in Mercosur]. Espacios Públicos, 13(27), 113–134

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ABSTRACT In this paper we proposed a systematic discussion of Poulantzas’ study on capitalist State. From this discussion, we advanced in recognition of general determinations of the more concrete phenomenon, namely the development of the capitalist state as the nation-state from the perspective of the critique of political economy developed by Marx. The development continues … Read more

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.

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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

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.

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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

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

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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