107 research outputs found
Introduction:The New International Division of Labour and the Critique of Political Economy Today
No full textThis chapter attempts a critical reconstruction of the NIDL thesis. While acknowledging the insights of the original thesis, it argues that the foundation for the emergence of the NIDL does not reside in the intensification of the manufacturing division of labour, that is, in the deskilling resulting from the subdivision of the production process into elements. Instead, the NIDL developed as an expression of the impact that the progress of the automation of capitalist large-scale industry has had on the individual and collective productive subjectivity of the working class. More specifically, the constitution of the NIDL has been the result of the transformation of the modes of existence of the global collective labourer brought about by the leap forward in the process of computerisation and robotisation of the production processes of large-scale industry, especially since the ?microelectronics revolution?. As a result of its own immanent tendencies, the simplest original form of the NIDL has evolved into a more complex constellation, whereby capital searches worldwide for the most profitable combinations of relative cost and qualities/disciplines resulting from the variegated past histories of the different national fragments of the working class. Each country therefore tends to concentrate a certain type of labour-power of distinctive ?material and moral? productive attributes of a determinate complexity, which are spatially dispersed but collectively exploited by capital as a whole in the least costly possible manner. Productions in specific industrial branches has thereby expanded in some countries while contracting in others where new and more advanced sectors developed, following a rhythm determined by the evolution of those two main factors ? i.e. technological changes and relative cost and productive attributes of national labour forces. An important claim made by this chapter, therefore, and which will have relevance for subsequent Chapters Four and Seven, concerns the degree to which ?structural? characteristics of the CIDL and the NIDL today co-exist in national spaces of accumulation ? particularly in Latin America. This, the chapter concludes, actually confirms the validity of a reworked NIDL thesis rather than its refutation, as some commentators have asserted.Fil: Charnock, Greig. University of Manchester; Reino UnidoFil: Starosta, Guido. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Departamento de Economía y Administración; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin
The New International Division of Labour and the Differentiated Integration of Europe:The Case of Spain
No full textThe chapter argues that it is of crucial importance to understand the longer-term historical role played within the new international division of labour (NIDL) by relatively late industrialising countries that are today bearing the brunt of crisis and ‘internal devaluation’ in a ‘unified’ Europe. Focusing on Spain, they argue that it is precisely on the material basis of its full integration within the NIDL from the mid-1970s that the conditions of the reproduction of the working class were re-shaped, and it is this ‘historical component’ in the reproduction of the Spanish accumulation process that has prefigured the process of the differentiation of the conditions of the reproduction of the working class within and across its borders ever since
Malka Marom in conversation with Dr Ruth Charnock [Court and Spark: An International Symposium on the Work of Joni Mitchell]
No full textMalka Marom, author of 'Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words' in conversation with Dr Ruth Charnock as part of Court and Spark: An International Symposium on the Work of Joni Mitchell, July 3rd, 2015. Thanks to Adam O'Meara for making this film.</p
The Life of Professor Orlando Charnock Bradley, (1871-1937): diary entries 1895-1923, Part 1.
No full textUntil now, anyone with an interest in the achievements of Orlando Charnock
Bradley, Principal of the Royal (Dick) Veterinary College in Edinburgh from
1911-1937, was first guided to the Obituary Notice written by his good friend
and colleague, Russell Greig (1889-1963). This contained a detailed account
of Charnock Bradley's accomplishments as well as a personal account of the
man himself. Recently new insights into Charnock Bradley's life and works
have come to light. The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies (known
locally as the 'Dick Vet') received the ten volumes of Bradley's personal diary,
a unique historical legacy, from his grand-niece, Mrs Frances Harrison. This
diary provides a detailed' and personal day-by-day record of 41 years of his
academic, public and private life. In this first of three summaries we largely
present the years up to 1923, the anniversary of the establishment of the 'Dick
Vet', with extracts from the diary in italics
The complete works of Stephen Charnock /
No full text--v.1. Discourses on divine Providence and the existence and attributes of God.--v.2. Discourse on the existence and attributes of God.--v.3. The necessity--the nature--the efficient--and the instrument of regeneration. God the author of reconciliation. The cleansing virtue of Christ's blood.--v.4. Discourses and knowledge of God; unbelief; the Lord's supper, &c.--v.5. Miscellaneous discourses, indexes, &c.Mode of access: Internet
The Space of International Political Economy: On Scale and its Limits
No full textThis article introduces the contribution made by scholars writing on the 'new political economy of scale'. It explains how this approach shares with neo-Gramscian approaches a concern with challenging the problematic assumptions of much international political economy theorising. Moreover, if the achievement of scholars such as Robert Cox has been to show how social forces shape and reshape world orders over time, then the new political economy of scale also reveals how social forces do not simply operate within and across national state space, but also politicise space itself. The final part of the article reviews two sets of criticisms of the approach and concludes that, while it has been significant in challenging IPE scholars to reflect upon their spatial assumptions, its status as a critical alternative may well be compromised by its own foundational tenets. © 2010 The Author. Journal compilation © 2010 Political Studies Association
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