Creating Surplus Labour: Neo-Liberal Transformations and the Development of Relative Surplus Population in Indonesia

Habibi, Muchtar; Juliawan, Benny Hari

doi:10.1080/00472336.2018.1429007

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“…On the one hand, both technology-driven innovation and the transfer of industrial production drive Fordist working class redundancy to low-waged workforces in newly industrialising countries. On the other hand, the neoliberal project is foisting capitalism’s productivity-driven redundancy logic on to the large rural populations of non-developed countries as corporate agriculture directly competes with, and in so doing undermines, traditional small-scale forms of agriculture (Habib & Juliawan 2018; McMichael 2008).…”

Section: Uneven Development and The Neoliberal Model Of Developmentmentioning

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Bringing in the ‘neoliberal model of development’

Neilson

2019

Capital & Class

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This article brings in the concept of the ‘neoliberal model of development’ as a corrective to the prevailing emphasis in the literature that usefully describes neoliberalism as a nationally diverging phenomenon but does not adequately examine the mid-range trans-national/global regulatory connection or the logics of national convergence. By extending the concept of regulation and specifying the national trans-national connection, this article revises the original Parisian French Regulation School conception of a ‘model of development’ and makes it applicable to the contemporary neoliberal era. It then applies this revised conception to help explain contemporary patterns of national convergence and divergence. In particular, with reference to Marx’s theory of the ‘relative surplus population’, this article explores capitalism’s uneven development as a form of national variation intensified by the neoliberal model of development. This revisionist analysis of model of development also demonstrates how its praxis dimension is significant for explaining past and present mid-range variations of capitalism, and more importantly for making a mid-range counter-hegemonic future.

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Section: Uneven Development and The Neoliberal Model Of Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bringing in the ‘neoliberal model of development’

Neilson

2019

Capital & Class

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“…This also points to a key difference between the migrants from Mithilanchal, and the surplus labour force produced by dispossession and enclosure, as described by Li () and others (Habibi and Juliawan ) in other parts of the Global South. In Mithilanchal, one can observe not only the paradoxical role of pre‐capitalist agrarian relations in mediating the flow of labour to capitalism, but also the fact that there is limited “dispossession” at all.…”

Section: Understanding the Articulation Of Modes Of Productionmentioning

confidence: 52%

Labour Migration, Capitalist Accumulation, and Feudal Reproduction: A Historical Analysis from the Eastern Gangetic Plains

Sugden

2019

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This paper engages with the long-running debate on the transition from farm-based livelihoods to capitalism in the context of labour migration. Tracing the historic evolution of modes of production in the peripheral Mithilanchal region of the Eastern Gangetic Plains, it notes how the economic processes which are today driving the peasantry into the labour force through migration are not directly connected to the process of capitalist accumulation in the diverse locales where labour is employed, as is somtimes implied in the research on classic situations of "accumulation by dispossession". The entry of the peasantry into the surplus labour pool is instead linked firstly, with a complex convergence of internal changes within a non-capitalist feudal mode of production on an economic, cultural and political level, and secondly, with the stresses brought about in the wake of expanding capitalist markets. The paper notes however that migrant labour still generates substantial profits for capitalism with a sharing of surplus between the latter, and landlord-money lenders. It argues that the relationship between modes of production in this context, is neither functional nor coincidental, and is linked instead with largerat times opportunisticclass alliances which have evolved to fit the current political-economic conjuncture.

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“…781-794) explains these people as RSP, which consists of four groups (Marx, 1982(Marx, [1867, pp. 794-802), namely floating, latent, stagnant, and paupers (for a more systematic organization of Marx's RSP, see Habibi & Juliawan, 2018). The term "informality" (Bhalla, 2017) has replaced Marx's concept of RSP.…”

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Extended Agrarian Question in Concessionary Capitalism: The Jakarta’s Kaum Miskin Kota

Batubara

Rachman

2022

Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy: A triannual Journ

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This article reassesses agrarian questions by using the ongoing explosion in urban and urbanization theories to explain Jakarta’s urban poor (the Kaum Miskin Kota) as an extended agrarian question. It shows how the two capitalist development trajectories identified by Lenin as the Russian and American paths, or the transformation of feudal large-scale and small landholders into capitalists, respectively, do not apply in Indonesia. In the latter, a “concessionary capitalism” of large-scale land claims and allocations by the state is observed. This specific process produces specific agrarian questions of soil/land and labor through which the urban poor germinated. It closes with a political project, that is, to open more alliance-building possibilities between urban and rural social movements.

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Creating Surplus Labour: Neo-Liberal Transformations and the Development of Relative Surplus Population in Indonesia

Cited by 23 publications

References 42 publications

Bringing in the ‘neoliberal model of development’

Bringing in the ‘neoliberal model of development’

Labour Migration, Capitalist Accumulation, and Feudal Reproduction: A Historical Analysis from the Eastern Gangetic Plains

Extended Agrarian Question in Concessionary Capitalism: The Jakarta’s Kaum Miskin Kota

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