Labour Use and Labour Control in the Brazilian Automobile Industry

Settler-Colonialism and the New Afrikan Liberation Struggle

“…However, these two forms complemented each other, and only when the world system required the more advanced forms of production (agricultural or industrial) were they introduced. (See also Humphrey 1980;Pinto 1965;Sotelo Valencia 2014, p. 543) It is in this context that the contribution of Ruy Mauro Marini (2005a, b) to the labour theory of value, in the form of his thesis on superexploitation, is significant, insofar as it offers one of the most rigorous treatments of this apparent 'backwardness' to date (see also Bueno and Seabra 2010;Osorio in Almeida Filho 2013;Sotelo Valencia 2014; on the significance of this thesis to historical and contemporary debates within Marxist dependency theory, see Kay 1989;Prado 2011;Sotelo Valencia 2014). While many use the term figuratively or descriptively to talk about a variety of low-wage, physically exhausting and often dangerous work, Marini examined the historical function of superexploited Brazilian labour, unfree and free, in the production of particular use values for consumption in the metropolitan core during the nineteenth century.…”

Neoliberal and neostructuralist perspectives on labour flexibility, poverty and inequality: A critical appraisal

“…33 The importance of these propositions is that the realm of production is understood as both a technical and a social process, where capital must exercise its Fernando Ignacio Leiva control and domination over labour within specific conditions of valorisation and class struggle. 34 The organisation of industry and the labour process are not reduced to the immanent requirements of technical change, but rather are seen as the outcome of the need to control labour as well as organise it through diverse labour control and monitoring systems. This need is exercised in the context of increased capitalist competition and the accumulation of capital takes place under certain specific social and political conditions.…”