Materiality of labour process

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

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

Starosta, G. (2007b). Value form and class struggle: A critique of the autonomist theory of value. (en colaboración con Kicillof, A.) Capital & Class, 31(2), 13–40.

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ABSTRACT This paper develops a critique of the ‘class struggle’ theory of value that emerged out of the autonomist Marxist tradition, arguing that although this theory has the merit of putting forward a production-centred, value-form approach, it eventually fails to grasp the determinations of value-producing labour. In particular, the notion of value as a mode of existence of the class struggle inverts … Read more

Starosta, G. (2007a). On Materiality and Social Form: A Political Critique of Rubin’s Value-Form Theory. (en colaboración con Kicillof, A.) Historical Materialism, 15(3), 9–43.

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ABSTRACT This paper critically examines I.I. Rubin’s Essays on Marx’s Theory of Value and argues that two different approaches to value theory can be found in that book: a more ‘production-centred’ value-form theory uneasily co-exists with a ‘circulationist’ perspective. This unresolved tension, the authors claim, reflects a more general theoretical shortcoming in Rubin’s work, namely, a problematic conceptualisation of … Read more

Starosta, G. (2012b). El sistema de maquinaria y las determinaciones de la subjetividad revolucionaria en los Grundrisse y El Capital [The System of Machinery and Determinations of Revolutionary Subjectivity in the Grundrisse and Capital]. En G. Caligaris & A. Fitzsimons (Eds.), Relaciones económicas y políticas : aportes para el estudio de su unidad con base en la obra de Karl Marx (pp. 92–136). Buenos Aires: Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad de Buenos Aires.

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ABSTRACT Este trabajo sintetiza los descubrimientos realizados por Marx sobre las determinaciones concretas de la organización social superadora del modo de producción capitalista bajo la forma potencial en que se presentan bajo el actual modo de producción. A través del análisis de lo planteado por Marx en cuanto a los cambios en la materialidad del … Read more

Grinberg, N. (2013b). The political economy of Brazilian (Latin American) and Korean (East Asian) comparative development: moving beyond nation-centred approaches. New Political Economy, 18(2), 171–197.

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ABSTRACT The article argues that in order to grasp fully Brazilian and Korean post-WWII developmental and growth experiences, it is first necessary to account for global-economy dynamics and the transformations in the International Division of Labour. These, together with local factors that particularly affect the objective conditions for the valorisation of capital in different productive sectors, explain the specific characteristics … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2004), Trabajo Infantil y Capital. Imago Mundi

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Iñigo Carrera, Juan Trabajo infantil y capital Imago Mundi, Buenos Aires, 2008. ISBN: 978-950-793-078-2 TABLE OF CONTENTS – Prólogo – Capítulo 1. Las determinaciones materiales del trabajo y de los atributos productivos del trabajador – Capítulo 2. Análisis crítico de los estudios que se detienen en las manifestaciones inmediatas del trabajo infantil – Capítulo 3. Análisis … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2014a). The Historical Determination of the Capitalist Mode of Production and of the Working Class as the Revolutionary Subject. Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory, 42(4), 555–572

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ABSTRACT Prominent Marxist theoreticians conceive the working class as a revolutionary subject based on moral or ethical superiority, a natural will for freedom, self-valorization, the need to avoid barbarism, etc. From a materialist viewpoint, human history consists of the transformation of the material conditions of social life through labor. Capitalism is the historically specific development … 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