Global unity

Lewinger, A. (2012). Guerra cambiaria: ¿falla de coordinación o forma concreta de una crisis de sobreproducción general capitalista? (en colaboración con Straffela, M. & Iannuzzi, P.) [Currency war: coordination failure or concrete form of a capitalist general overproduction crisis?] [in collaboration with Straffela, M. & Ianuzzi, P.]. Razón y Revolución, (23), 7-27.

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ABSTRACT After the outbreak of the 2008 crisis, several international summits addressed the global imbalances issue, without the arisen of an effective solution. This result is due to the way in which capital has been accumulating worldwide in the recent decades, with a growing gap between the level of production and the consumption capacity. This … Read more

Starosta, G. (2013). The System of Machinery and Determinations of Revolutionary Subjectivity in the Grundrisse and Capital. En R. Bellofiore, G. Starosta, & P. D. Thomas (Eds.), In Marx’s Laboratory. Critical Interpretations of the Grundrisse (pp. 233–264). Leiden: Brill.

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ABSTRACT Guido Starosta’s chapter, ‘The System of Machinery and Determinations of Revolutionary Subjectivity in the Grundrisse and Capital’, argues that Marx’s exposition of the forms of the real subsumption of labour to capital – in particular, the system of machinery of large-scale industry – constitutes the dialectical presentation of the determinations of revolutionary subjectivity. Starosta … Read more

Starosta, G. (2016). Revisiting the New International Division of Labour Thesis. En G. Charnock & G. Starosta (Eds.), The New International Division of Labour (pp. 79–103). Palgrave.

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ABSTRACT In Chap. 4 , Guido Starosta turns his attention to the task of the critical reconstruction of the NIDL thesis. While acknowledging the insights of the original thesis, Starosta argues that the foundation for the emergence of the NIDL does not reside in the intensification of the manufacturing division of labour, that is, in … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2016). The General Rate of Profit and Its Realisation in the Differentiation of Industrial Capitals. En G. Charnock & G. Starosta (Eds.), The New International Division of Labour (pp. 25–53). Palgrave.

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ABSTRACT This chapter introduces Juan Iñigo Carrera’s take on the NIDL. In it, Iñigo Carrera proceeds from a particular point of departure, that is, from the global process of accumulation in its organic unity, and within which distinct national processes of accumulation emerge as specific concrete forms of that same global process. He argues that … Read more

Grinberg, N. (2016d). Patterns of “State-Led Development” in Brazil and South Korea: The Steel Manufacturing Industries. En G. Charnock & G. Starosta (Eds.), The New International Division of Labour (pp. 215–244). Palgrave.

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ABSTRACT In Chapter 9, Nicolas Grinberg offers an alternative account to the mainstream, institutionalist view on the state-led process of economic development in Brazil and South Korea. Focusing on the development of the Brazilian and Korean steel industries, Grinberg claims that the specific form of participation of each economy in the production of relative surplus-value … Read more

Friedenthal, T., & Starosta, G. (2016). The New International Division of Labour in “High-Tech Production”: The Genesis of Ireland’s Boom in the 1990s. En G. Charnock & G. Starosta (Eds.), The New International Division of Labour (pp. 127–156). Palgrave.

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ABSTRACT Chapter 6 examines Ireland’s rapid structural economic transformation during the 1990s, and the debates that emerged about the potentialities and limits of this idiosyncratic ‘developmental model’, and its apparently successful integration into the global economy. Whilst neo-liberal economists have tended to explain the Irish experience of rapid growth in terms of the adoption of … Read more

Charnock, Greig & Starosta, Guido (2016), The New International Division of Labour. Palgrave Macmillan

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Charnock, Greig y Starosta, Guido The New International Division of Labour: Global Transformation and Uneven Development Palgrave, London, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-137-53872-7 TABLE OF CONTENTS – Charnock, Greig & Starosta, Guido – Introduction: The New International Division of Labour and the Critique of Political Economy Today – Iñigo Carrera, Juan – The General Rate of Profit … Read more

Grinberg, N. (2016b). From the financial crisis to the next eleven: limits and contradictions in the Korean process of capital accumulation. Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 21(1), 1–25.

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ABSTRACT This paper examines the South Korean economic crisis of 1997-1998 and the subsequent recovery. For this, it first analyses the specific characteristics and longterm development of the process capital accumulation there. The paper claims that, as in the rest of East Asia, capital accumulation in Korea has, since the mid-1960s, revolved around the production … Read more

Iñigo, L., & Río, V. (2017). Extensión de la escolaridad y obligatoriedad de la escuela secundaria en Argentina: el papel de la universalización de la lectura y escritura [Schooling Extension and Compulsory Secondary Education in Argentina: the role of the Universalization of Reading and Writing Abilities]. Universitas humanística, 83(83), 213-243.

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ABSTRACT This article approaches the relation between extending compulsory schooling and the development of reading and writing abilities in Argentina. First, it examines the universalization of these abilities in the capitalist society, and then it analyzes recent transformations in labor processes that underlie the extension of the average schooling years. Finally, it focuses on the … Read more

Starosta, G. (2010c). The Outsourcing of Manufacturing and the Rise of Giant Global Contractors: A Marxian Approach to Some Recent Transformations of Global Value Chains. New Political Economy, 15(4), 543–563.

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ABSTRACT This article aims to show that the Marxian ‘law of value’ can provide solid foundations for the comprehension of the constitution and dynamics of Global Value Chains (GVC). It offers an explanation of the social processes of ‘value creation and capture’ within a chain based on the system-wide motion of global capital accumulation. A … Read more