Mediations of Super-exploitation

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-Imperialism Revisited (Brill, 2017) and The Future of Work (Brill, 2015).

• List of Tables, Graphs and Figures  Foreword  IntroductionPart 1: The Mediations of Super-exploitation1 Second Order Mediations in the Epistemology and Method of Mészáros Introduction 1.1 Dependency and the Super-Exploitation of Labor 1.2 Dialectical Totality, Implied Order, and Mediations in Social Thought 1.3 Mészáros’ First and Second Order Mediations 1.4 The Exploitation and Super-Exploitation of Labor in Second-Order Mediations 1.5 The Super-Exploitation of Labor: Categorical Attributes ConclusionPart 2: Capitalism’s Polycrisis and the World of Work2 Super-Exploitation, Dismeasure of Value, and Fictitious Capital: The Roots of the Crisis Introduction 2.1 Globalization and the New International Division of Labor ConclusionPart 3: Labor, the Social Sciences, and Dependency3 Exploring Dependency and the World of Work Introduction 3.1 The “Approach” of Dependency without Theory 3.2 Dependency within the Framework of World-System Analysis 3.3 The Transformation of Dependency Theory into the Marxist Theory of Dependency 3.4 Theoretical and Methodological Frameworks of the Marxist Theory of Dependency Conclusion 4 The Trajectory and Debates Surrounding Dependency Introduction 4.1 The Third Industrial Revolution and Theories of the “End of Work” 4.2 Work and Its Place in Dependency Currents 4.3 The Locus of Labor in Dependency Theory 4.4 Labor in the Marxist Theory of Dependency 4.5 Dissolving the Marxist Theory of Dependency to “Renew” It ConclusionPart 4: Mediations, Super-exploitation, and Advanced Capitalism5 Homogeneity and Heterogeneity: Two Morphologies of the Same Process Introduction 5.1 Structural Heterogeneity 5.2 Capital Homogenization in the Context of Globalization 5.3 Functional Super-Exploitation in Advanced Capitalist Countries Conclusion General Conclusion Appendix: Theoretical Currents References Index