Latin America

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

Caligaris, G. (2016b), Transformaciones recientes en el proceso de trabajo en la producción agraria pampeana: límites y potencialidades del proceso de ‘sojización’ [Recent transformations in labour process at the Pampas agricultural production: limits and potentialities of the ‘soybeanization’ process]. Revista Trabajo y Sociedad, Número 27, pp. 425-446.

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ABSTRACT This paper examines the recent material transformations that took place in the agrarian labour process in the Pampas in order to provide empirical evidence and elements for the analysis to the existing debate within the agrarian studies regarding the production and social implications of those transformations. For this purpose, an analysis on the so-called … Read more