Mediations of Super-exploitation

A Methodological Proposal for Understanding New Dependency

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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This work by Mexican theorist Adrián Sotelo Valencia succinctly analyses the process of super-exploitation in the present day context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Drawing upon methodological insights from Hungarian Marxist István Mészáros, Brazilian Marxist Ruy Mauro Marini, and others, Sotelo demonstrates the pivotal importance of analysing second order mediations as he builds an innovative, expanded model of structural dependency. The result is a more holistic, dialectical grasp of the contradictory dynamics of contemporary imperialism where Capital globally deploys technology for automation in an unsustainable drive for profit that displaces labor and increasingly threatens the reproduction of the global labor force. Empirical evidence presented throughout this work serves to reinforce its powerful, updated articulation of Marxist Dependency Theory.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-07-03
Mått155 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt505 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCritical Global Studies
Antal sidor214
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004735538
ÖversättareDavid Stiles Sparks

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Dr. Adrián Sotelo Valencia is Professor and researcher at the Center for Latin American Studies of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the UNAM in Mexico City. He has authored numerous works on labor, capitalist crisis, and development, including Global Labour in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Brill, 2023), United States in a World in Crisis (Brill, 2020), Sub-Imperalism Revisited (Brill, 2017) and The Future of Work (Brill, 2015).

List of Tables, Graphs and Figures IXForeword XIIntroductionPart 1: The Mediations of Super-exploitation1 Second Order Mediations in the Epistemology and Method of MészárosIntroduction1.1 Dependency and the Super-Exploitation of Labor1.2 Dialectical Totality, Implied Order, and Mediations in Social Thought1.3 Mészáros’ First and Second Order Mediations1.4 The Exploitation and Super-Exploitation of Labor in Second-Order Mediations1.5 The Super-Exploitation of Labor: Categorical AttributesConclusionPart 2: Capitalism’s Polycrisis and the World of Work2 Super-Exploitation, Dismeasure of Value, and Fictitious Capital: The Roots of the CrisisIntroduction2.1 Globalization and the New International Division of LaborConclusionPart 3: Labor, the Social Sciences, and Dependency3 Exploring Dependency and the World of WorkIntroduction3.1 The “Approach” of Dependency without Theory3.2 Dependency within the Framework of World-System Analysis3.3 The Transformation of Dependency Theory into the Marxist Theory of Dependency3.4 Theoretical and Methodological Frameworks of the Marxist Theory of DependencyConclusion4 The Trajectory and Debates Surrounding DependencyIntroduction4.1 The Third Industrial Revolution and Theories of the “End of Work”4.2 Work and Its Place in Dependency Currents4.3 The Locus of Labor in Dependency Theory4.4 Labor in the Marxist Theory of Dependency4.5 Dissolving the Marxist Theory of Dependency to “Renew” ItConclusionPart 4: Mediations, Super-exploitation, and Advanced Capitalism5 Homogeneity and Heterogeneity: Two Morphologies of the Same ProcessIntroduction5.1 Structural Heterogeneity5.2 Capital Homogenization in the Context of Globalization5.3 Functional Super-Exploitation in Advanced Capitalist CountriesConclusionGeneral ConclusionAppendix: Theoretical CurrentsReferencesIndex