Transnational Corporations and the ‘Restructuring’ of the Argentine Automotive Industry: Change or Continuity?

Fitzsimons, Alejandro; Guevara, Sebastián

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“…However, it is an incontrovertible empirical fact that, at different points in time in the past decades, several resource-rich countries of the Global South have used a series of specific policy interventions to develop car industries in the form of domestically-oriented ISI with the participation of leading MNCs, while continuing to be integrated into the global economy as raw material exporters. This has been the case of Brazil and Argentina in Latin America (Fitzsimons and Guevara, 2016; Grinberg, 2011), Egypt in North Africa (Black et al, 2020), and Uzbekistan in Central Asia, the case study of this paper. Neither the neoliberal nor the developmental state literature can offer a satisfactory explanation as to why global MNCs would invest in such inefficient markets (as per the former), given the low scale of production that is mostly purchased domestically rather than exported (pace the latter).…”

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“…These policies have been a feature of ‘backward’ ISI in resource-rich countries in, for example, Latin America during the past decades, including in the car industry with the participation of MNC/TNC-affiliates (e.g. Fitzsimons and Guevara, 2016). The same has been the case in the ‘backward’ car industry of independent Uzbekistan, whose evolution is analysed in the next section.…”

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‘Backward’ industrialisation in resource-rich countries: The car industry in Uzbekistan

Galdini

2022

Competition & Change

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This article analyses the ‘backward’ form of import-substitution industrialisation (ISI) in countries integrated into the global economy as exporters of primary commodities, using the example of the car industry in Uzbekistan. This form of incorporation defines the way in which all manufacturing capitals, regardless of ‘nationality’, accumulate at the average rate of profit via raw material rents, as mediated by specific state policies. This has been the case of Uzbekistan’s state-owned car manufacturer UzAvtoSanoat, in joint-venture with Korean Daewoo Motor Company and American General Motors in the 1992–2016 period. Orthodox (‘neoliberal’) economists view the Uzbek car industry as inefficient due to state intervention. Heterodox (‘developmental state’) scholars hail it as an example of export-oriented industrial upgrading. Neither explain, however, why leading MNCs would invest in such an inefficient market (as per the former), given its low scale of production that is mostly purchased domestically (pace the latter). Instead, I contend that all manufacturing capitals in the country could stay profitable only via rent subsidisation, the main reason for leading MNCs to invest in it. As such, ‘backward’ manufacturing ISI in Uzbekistan epitomises a specific national form taken by the global process of capital accumulation in resource-rich countries of the Global South.

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‘Backward’ industrialisation in resource-rich countries: The car industry in Uzbekistan

Galdini

2022

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“…En esta etapa expansiva (y especialmente luego de la crisis de 2001) se incrementaron las escalas de producción, se modernizaron las fábricas, aumentó la productividad del trabajo y crecieron las exportaciones (Arza y López, 2008; Barbero y Pinazo, 2015;Santarcángelo y Perrone, 2012). Sin embargo, como se argumenta extensamente en otro lugar (Fitzsimons y Guevara, 2016), la comparación internacional de la evolución de estos indicadores muestra que las brechas de productividad y escala entre la industria local y la global se mantuvieron e incluso se profundizaron, esencialmente porque las transformaciones globales fueron tanto o más profundas que las locales.…”

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La industria automotriz argentina y sus fuentes de ganancia: un análisis de largo plazo (1960-2013)

Fitzsimons

Guevara

2018

Am. Lat. Hist. Econ.

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Este trabajo estudia el desarrollo histórico de la industria automotriz argentina desde 1960 hasta 2013. El argumento principal es que la valorización del capital de las empresas multinacionales que operan localmente tiene una forma específica o distintiva respecto de otros casos nacionales. Esta especificidad consiste, esencialmente, en la apropiación de renta de la tierra agraria por el capital industrial automotriz a través de dos mecanismos principales, a saber, el abaratamiento de la fuerza de trabajo y la venta en el mercado interno y/o regional a precios superiores a los internacionales. De este modo, los capitales automotrices compensaron la pequeña escala de producción, la tecnología atrasada y la resultante baja productividad del trabajo de sus fábricas en Argentina. Estos argumentos se fundamentan mediante la comparación internacional de salarios, realizada con series de elaboración propia, y el análisis de otras evidencias presentadas por la literatura especializada.

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“…This might happen in national spheres of valorization of capital where there is a structural limit to the scale of the accumulation process, and consequently, there is a continuous growth of the relative surplus population vis-à-vis the needs of the expanded reproduction of capital. This explains why some countries have historically had a wage that has been remarkably lower than that prevailing in advanced capitalist countries, despite the similarity of productive attributes of the respective national working classes, as can be observed, for instance, in the automobile industry in Argentina vis-à-vis in the United States (Fitzsimons and Guevara 2016).…”

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Rethinking the Determination of the Value of Labor Power

Starosta

Fitzsimons

2017

Review of Radical Political Economics

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This article critically examines the received wisdom on the value of labor power that posits the workers’ material reproduction and the class struggle as two independent factors that determine the bundle of wage-goods consumed by the working class. It shows that this reading has no solid textual basis on Marx’s writings. Furthermore, it argues that it rests on a problematic separation of the actual immanent unity between materiality and social form in the capitalist mode of production.

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Transnational Corporations and the ‘Restructuring’ of the Argentine Automotive Industry: Change or Continuity?

Cited by 6 publications

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‘Backward’ industrialisation in resource-rich countries: The car industry in Uzbekistan

‘Backward’ industrialisation in resource-rich countries: The car industry in Uzbekistan

La industria automotriz argentina y sus fuentes de ganancia: un análisis de largo plazo (1960-2013)

Rethinking the Determination of the Value of Labor Power

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