Materiality of labour process

Pérez Trento, N., & Starosta, G. (2020). En torno al rol de la Argentina en la Nueva División Internacional del Trabajo. [On the role of Argentina in the New International Division of Labour]. Voces del Fénix, 80, 48–55.

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ABSTRACT With the consolidation of the capitalist mode of production, the process of social reproduction takes on a global character. Still, differences among the roles played by diverse countries are apparent. In this work, the authors offer a perspective on the role that Argentina plays in the process of global production, focusing especially on the … Read more

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

Grinberg, N. (2018). Institutions and Capitalist Development: A Critique of the New Institutional Economics. Science & Society, 82(2), 203-233.

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ABSTRACT New Institutional Economics (NIE) is a branch of neoclassical economics that regards the institutional setting of exchange (markets) as the key force accounting for differences in nations’ economic performance. Though originally focused on economic institutions, this approach has paid increasing attention to the political institutions giving birth to the former. Why Nations Fail? by … Read more

Charnock, G., & Starosta, G. (2018). Towards a “Unified Field Theory” of Uneven Development: Human Productive Subjectivity, Capital and the International. Global Society, 32(3), 324-343.

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ABSTRACT This article puts labour, and its historically changing forms of existence, at the centre of the theorisation of uneven international development. It advocates a consciously dialectical approach that goes beyond significant limitations in historical-geographical materialism, and in the work of Neil Smith in particular. It argues, first, that geopolitical modes of explanation cannot be … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2003a). Chapter 02. Transformaciones en la acumulación de capital. De la producción nacional del obrera universal a la fragmentación internacional de la subjetividad productiva de la clase obrera

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Chapter 2 from “El Capital: razón histórica, sujeto revolucionario y conciencia” DOWNLOAD  PDF (only available in spanish)

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2007d). La détermination historique du mode de production capitaliste et de la classe ouvrière comme sujet révolutionnaire face à la fragmentation actuelle de la subjectivité productive de la force de travail. Presentado en el Congrès Marx International V, Université de Paris-X Nanterre.

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ABSTRACT Le capitalisme est le développement de la subjectivité humaine en transformant les puissances productives du travail libre individuel en ceux du travail social consciemment organisé par le travailleur collectif qui l´effectue comme travail privé. La classe ouvrière fait face à son produit propre, la capacité pour organiser scientifiquement la production, comme une puissance aliénée. … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2005b). La fragmentación internacional de la subjetividad productiva de la clase obrera [The international fragmentation of the productive subjectivity of the working-class]. Presented at 7o Congreso Nacional de Estudios del Trabajo, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires.

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ABSTRACT La acumulación de capital en la gran industria transforma la materialidad del trabajo, determinando a la subjetividad productiva de los obreros de tres modos divergentes: degrada la aplicada al trabajo simplificado; desarrolla la aplicada al control científico de las fuerzas naturales; destruye la de la población obrera a la que determina como sobrante. Mediante … 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

Caligaris, G. (2015). Concentración y centralización de capital en la región pampeana. El caso de los grandes pooles de siembra [Concentration and centralization of capital in the Pampas.The case of the big sowing pools]. Mundo Agrario, 16(31), 1–34.

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ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the potentialities of the process of concentration of agrarian capital from the case of the so-called ‘big sowing pools’. For this purpose we analyze the investment and production projects of the sowing pools constituted as Mutual Funds Closed Investment and Financial Trusts. In addition, we perform … 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