Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1521/siso.2023.87.4.531
Debarshi Das
The conceptual tools of Marxist rent theory, such as absolute and monopoly rent, need clarification. The institution of landed property, alone, is not responsible for absolute rent. The Marxist theory of land rent continues to apply under two contemporary conditions: (1) the agrarian stagnation in developing countries such as India and (2) the urban rents and property prices. Most owner-cultivators in developing countries could be earning negative rents. Furthermore, differential rents and monopoly rents — fueled by speculation and state policies — explain movements in urban rent and property prices if the organic composition of capital is similar across sectors.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1521/siso.2023.87.4.447
Paddy Quick
Social Reproduction Theory (SRT) takes as its starting point the recognition that household activity in the capitalist mode of production constitutes far more than the production of use values. The activities that take place within households are understood to be part of the entire process of reproduction of society, i.e. social reproduction. The proponents of SRT have stimulated much valuable empirical research on these activities. However, there are major problems in the SRT framework within which these activities are placed. Although presented in the form of a contribution to Marxist theory, SRT contradicts the most basic precepts of this theory. SRT diverges fundamentally from Marxist theory in its use of the term “social reproduction,” and in the related distinctions between “reproductive” and “productive” labor, and between “paid” and “unpaid” labor.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1521/siso.2023.87.4.556
Christos Balomenos
In this paper, I investigate archivally Michael Heinrich's arguments for the existence of a crucial theoretical shift in Marx's thought during the 1870s centered around his supposed doubts about the validity of the law of the falling rate of profit. Heinrich's arguments have been grouped into six clusters and discussed deploying the material contained in collections of published and unpublished writing of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, such as MECW and especially MEGA, whose second section includes all manuscripts related to Capital. This investigation concludes that the manuscripts and letters that Heinrich invokes to support his arguments do not substantiate any uncertainty on Marx's part about the validity of the law of the falling rate of profit nor a shift of his opinion during the 1870s towards the primacy of capitalist circulation, and especially credit, for explaining economic crisis.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1521/siso.2023.87.4.593
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1521/siso.2023.87.4.502
Wei Zhang, Hao Qi, Zhongjin Li
The rise of digital platforms has formed a platform reserve army. The platform reserve army is the stagnant reserve army of contemporary digital capitalism, which brings challenges to labor control. Using data collected from an original survey of over 600 ride-hailing drivers in two Chinese cities, the roles of the state and capital, as well as their interactions in shaping capital's control over the platform reserve army in China, are clarified. Against the backdrop of the state's market-formalization policy, ride-hailing platforms have aligned with third-party rental companies that provide qualified vehicles. The platform-rental company alliance has effectively trapped a significant share of drivers to maintain an adequate and stable labor supply. Given their capacity to manipulate and restructure the reserve army, platforms have capitalized on the state's regulations to strengthen their control over labor.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1521/siso.2023.87.4.475
Kei Ehara
Harry Braverman's “degradation thesis” is only one aspect of Marx's analysis of the labor process. A close reading of Chapters 13 to 15 of Capital Vol. 1, based on English and Japanese preceding studies, shows a dual system of work organization under the capitalist mode of production: concentrated and dispersed. Today's information and communications (ICT)-based work organization could be seen as an example of the latter, i.e., an online-controlled putting-out system. The concentrated work organization has two types: the automation-oriented model consists of mechanized processes maintained by unskilled labor. In contrast, the craft-oriented model is a set of mechanized work that requires different kinds of skilled labor. These definitions urge us to reconsider the general law of capitalist accumulation and the traditional strategy regarding class struggle.
{"title":"Marx's Ideas on Work Organization: Reinvestigating the Conceptions of Cooperation, the Division of Labor, and Machinery","authors":"Kei Ehara","doi":"10.1521/siso.2023.87.4.475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2023.87.4.475","url":null,"abstract":"Harry Braverman's “degradation thesis” is only one aspect of Marx's analysis of the labor process. A close reading of Chapters 13 to 15 of Capital Vol. 1, based on English and Japanese preceding studies, shows a dual system of work organization under the capitalist mode of production: concentrated and dispersed. Today's information and communications (ICT)-based work organization could be seen as an example of the latter, i.e., an online-controlled putting-out system. The concentrated work organization has two types: the automation-oriented model consists of mechanized processes maintained by unskilled labor. In contrast, the craft-oriented model is a set of mechanized work that requires different kinds of skilled labor. These definitions urge us to reconsider the general law of capitalist accumulation and the traditional strategy regarding class struggle.","PeriodicalId":46181,"journal":{"name":"Science & Society","volume":"187 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135606652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1521/siso.2023.87.3.440
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1521/siso.2023.87.2.298
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