Latin America

Grinberg, N. (2016a). From Populist Developmentalism to Liberal Neodevelopmentalism: The Specificity and Historical Development of Brazilian Capital Accumulation. Critical Historical Studies, 3(1), 65–104.

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ABSTRACT This article analyzes the trajectory of Brazilian society between the time of populist developmentalism and the emergence of neodevelopmentalism. Challenging mainstream accounts, it argues that the various policy regimes consolidating throughout the period have been forms of realization of the autonomously regulated process of capital accumulation on a global scale. More concretely, it is … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2011a). De la crisis al apogeo de la representación: subjetividad política y acumulación de capital en Argentina. Ciencias Sociales, (79), 50–56

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ABSTRACT Del “que se vayan todos” a la Presidenta a ser reelecta con más del 50% de los votos media, sin duda, un cambio marcado respecto de las formas políticas que toma la acumulación de capital en Argentina. Pero, al mismo tiempo, ambas expresiones políticas no son sino dos momentos portadores de la unidad de … Read more

Guevara, S. (2014). Conflictos en la industria automotriz: expresiones del límite con el que choca la acumulación de capital en la Argentina [Conflicts in the automotive industry: samples of capital accumulation limits in Argentina]. Razón y Revolución, (28), 77-97.

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ABSTRACT The labor conflicts of 2014 is highlighting the impact of the Argentine capital accumulation process against its specified limit. Insufficient land rent and the impossibility of having the external debt as a compensation mechanism for the recovery of capital operating in Argentina, are turning all the pressure towards greater falling wages below the value … Read more

Grinberg, N. (2015). On the Brazilian ground-rent appropriated by landowners. Revista de Economia Politica, 35(4), 799–824.

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ABSTRACT This paper presents a measurement of the portion of the Brazilian ground rent appropriated by agrarian landowners during 1955-2005 and assesses its importance relative to other forms of surplus value appropriated in the Brazilian economy. In pursuing this task, the paper also puts forward original estimations of several time-series that are crucial for the … Read more

Guevara, S. (2015). Los efectos de la política represiva de la dictadura militar sobre la acción obrera: un análisis de los conflictos en Mercedes Benz entre 1973 y 1983 [The effects of the repressive policies of the military dictatorship over the workers action: an analysis of the conflicts in Mercedes Benz between 1973 and 1983]. (en colaboración con Harari, I.) el@tina. Revista electrónica de estudios latinoamericanos, 13(50), 1-13

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ABSTRACT The article analyzes the union action taken by the workers of the automaker Mercedes Benz between 1973 and 1983. From the reconstruction of the conflicts led by the workers and the actions of repression made by the company and the State, we debate the nature of the working action under the dictatorship (continuity or … Read more

Grinberg, N., & Starosta, G. (2015). From global capital accumulation to varieties of centre-leftism in South America. En S. Spronk & J. R. Webber (Eds.), Crisis and Contradiction: Marxist Perspectives on Latin American in the Global Economy (pp. 236–272). Leiden: Brill

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ABSTRACT In the last decade there has been a broad shift to the left in South America. However, different types of political economy regimes can be discerned within this general common trend. There is currently a relatively widespread consensus that two different varieties of centre-left administrations are in office in the region. Mainstream analyses distinguish … Read more

Fitzsimons, A. (2015). Las Determinaciones Económicas De Los “Contratos Petroleros” En Argentina (1958-1963) [The economic determinations of the “oil contracts” in Argentina (1958- 1963)]. Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies, 15(2), 187–202

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ABSTRACT This article examines the oil production contracts in Argentina between 1958 and 1963. It investigates the material conditions of production, the forms of capital valorisation and the relationship between the oil sector and the rest of the economy. Based on some overlooked statistical sources, it shows that contractual production involved extraordinary profits steaming from … Read more

Fitzsimons, A. (2016a). Proceso de trabajo e internacionalización del capital: determinantes globales del “atraso” tecnológico de la industria automotriz argentina en las décadas de 1950 y 1960 [Labour process and internationalization of capital: global determinants of technolgical “backwardness” in the Argentine automotive industry in the 1950s and 1960s]. Trabajo y Sociedad, (26), 225–240.

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ABSTRACT This article explores the hypothesis that the low technological level of the Argentine automotive  industry (and other South American cases) emerged from the global dynamics of capital accumulation, challenging the institutional approach that favors ‘internal’ factors. Following a particular reading of the Marxian critique of political economy, it is argued that the ‘automation’ of the labor process … Read more

Cazón, F., Kennedy, D., & Lastra, F. (2016). Las condiciones de reproducción de fuerza de trabajo como forma de la especificidad de la acumulación de capital en Argentina: evidencias concretas desde mediados de los ’70 [Reproduction conditions of labour power as form of the specificity of capital accumulation in Argentina: concrete evidences since the 1970´s]. Trabajo y sociedad, (27), 305–327.

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ABSTRACT This article is framed in the debate regarding the relationship between the differentiation of labor power’s conditions of reproduction and the characteristics of the productive structure in Latin America. We analyze the evolution of this relationship in Argentina, by recognizing the specificity of this country in the global capital accumulation. Firstly, we describe the form in which the … Read more

Fitzsimons, A., & Starosta, G. (2018). Global capital, uneven development and national difference: Critical reflections on the specificity of accumulation in Latin America. Capital & Class, 42(1), 109-132.

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ABSTRACT A recent Special Issue in this journal devoted its pages to discuss the varied forms of capitalist development in different countries and regions across the globe. Specifically, the contributions offered a critical assessment of the hegemonic ‘neo-institutionalist’ approach to the study of national diversity of capitalism, with particular focus on the ‘varieties of capitalism’ … Read more