Behind the Crisis

Carchedi, Guglielmo

doi:10.1163/ej.9789004189942.i-303

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“…Marx's law of value undermines attempts to epitomize technology (productivity improvements) as capitalist development's driving force. Rather, it is the rate of profit, that immediately knowable and empirical datum, to which accumulation and investment are tethered, a proxy for the less 'empirical' concept of surplus value (Carchedi, 2011;Kliman, 2011;Mattick, 2011Mattick, , 2008. Any attempt to situate agrarian capitalism as a precondition for so-called industrial development idealistically posits some dehistoricized 'ruse of reason' behind the backs of social actors that in very concrete circumstances made decisions according to a contingent logic quite distant from Brenner's suggestions.…”

Section: Most Cogently Developed Inmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cacao capitalism in coastal Ecuador: Production processes and accumulation in non‐transitionary agrarian capitalism during the long 19th century

Fenton

2020

Journal of Agrarian Change

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Histories of agrarian capitalism have often been constrained by the implications of Robert Brenner's work on the subject. This essay, employing archival and secondary research on Ecuador's long 19th century experiences with cacao capitalism, argues that production processes and localized forms of accumulation, rather than class structure and legal relations, should be included in our definition of the concept. By focusing on how fixed capital in cacao trees and the production of the yearly cacao commodity responded to global demand and local material conditions, I propose amplifying the concept of agrarian capitalism, as well as a rethinking of coastal Ecuador's history of capitalist development. I highlight how both absolute and relative forms of surplus value generation coexisted in coastal Ecuador's cacao haciendas, while demonstrating how financial instruments used for extending the cacao frontier undermined the prospects for long‐term growth.

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Section: Most Cogently Developed Inmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cacao capitalism in coastal Ecuador: Production processes and accumulation in non‐transitionary agrarian capitalism during the long 19th century

Fenton

2020

Journal of Agrarian Change

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“…Individuals thus enter this ownership‐relation through structurally embedded social positions mediated through the capitalist totality (Garfinkel : 84–96). Thus this ownership‐relation is not an interpersonal relationship between an individual worker and an individual capitalist but is instead a contradictory relationship between free wage labour and capital (see Carchedi : 10–11; Clarke : 60–61; Larrain : 153).…”

Section: Dialectical Critical Realism: Diffraction and Refraction In mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These contradictions can of course react upon and change the generative contradiction. Indeed, the reproduction of contradictions from the ownership‐relation to other social relations, and then vice versa, creates and develops a historically specific contradictory system, or totality (see Carchedi : 13–15). Figure sets out Bhaskar's dialectical analysis.…”

Section: Dialectical Critical Realism: Diffraction and Refraction In mentioning

confidence: 99%

Critical Realism, Dialectics, and Qualitative Research Methods

Roberts

2014

J Theory Soc Behav

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Critical realism has been an important advance in social science methodology because it develops a qualitative theory of causality which avoids some of the pitfalls of empiricist theories of causality. But while there has been ample work exploring the relationship between critical realism and qualitative research methods there has been noticeably less work exploring the relationship between dialectical critical realism and qualitative research methods. This seems strange especially since the founder of the philosophy of critical realism, Roy Bhaskar, employs and develops a range of dialectical concepts in his later work in order to extend the main tenets of critical realism. The aim of this paper is to draw on Bhaskar's later work, as well as Marxism, to reorient a critical realist methodology towards a dialectical approach for qualitative research. In particular, the paper demonstrates how dialectical critical realism can begin to provide answers to three common criticisms made against original critical realist methodology: that the qualitative theory of causal powers and structures developed by critical realists is problematic; that critical realist methodology contains values which prove damaging to empirical research; and that critical realists often have difficulties in researching everyday qualitative dilemmas that people face in their daily lives.

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“…Since immigrant workers have always been confined to the lower segments of the Italian labour market and to the informal sector of the economy, it has been argued that immigrants will find jobs in any case, and any training that they receive will not change their opportunities for employment. Confirmation for this contention has been provided by the difficulties encountered by the few training initiatives undertaken in the past: low participation of migrants in the courses, irregular attendance, and high drop-out rates (Carchedi, 1999).…”

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Adult vocational training for migrants in North‐East Italy

Magnani

2015

International Migration

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This article contributes to the study of policies for the integration of immigrants into the labour markets of European immigration countries by focusing on the specific issue of vocational training for immigrant workers in Italy. Vocational training has a central role in the European employment strategy. Moreover, with regard to migrants, it is also relevant to the topical issue of the governance of international labour migration. The article analyses both the demand and the supply of vocational training in north‐east Italy, generally regarded as the rich and industrialised heart of the country. It draws on 30 interviews conducted with key informants and experts from local and regional governmental bodies, trade unions, employment offices, and private educational agencies in the main towns of the Veneto region. Various types of vocational training for immigrant workers are considered, from traditional full‐time courses financed by the European Social Fund to new projects for the selection and pre‐training of immigrants in their countries of origin. The extent to which these policy tools are able to meet the actual needs of immigrant workers and of the local business sector is investigated, as well as their problematic interaction with the national regulatory framework for immigration control.

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Behind the Crisis

Cited by 67 publications

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Cacao capitalism in coastal Ecuador: Production processes and accumulation in non‐transitionary agrarian capitalism during the long 19th century

Cacao capitalism in coastal Ecuador: Production processes and accumulation in non‐transitionary agrarian capitalism during the long 19th century

Critical Realism, Dialectics, and Qualitative Research Methods

Adult vocational training for migrants in North‐East Italy

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