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The New International Division of Labour: Global Transformation and Uneven Development

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
2016
ISBN
978-1-137-53871-0, 978-1-137-53872-7
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-53872-7
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2554593 bytes)
Series
International Political Economy Series
Edition
1
Pages
XVII, 252\263
Time added
2016-07-20 04:00:00

Description

This book revisits the debate over the new international division of labour (NIDL) that dominated discussions in international political economy and development studies until the early 1990s. It submits that a revised NIDL thesis can shed light on the specificities of capitalist development in various parts of the world today. Taken together, the contributions amount to a novel value-theoretical approach to understanding the NIDL. This rests upon the distinction between the global economic content that determines the constitution and dynamics of the NIDL and the evolving national political forms that mediate its development. More specifically, the authors argue that uneven development is an expression of the underlying essential unity of the production of relative surplus-value on a world scale. They substantiate and illustrate this argument through several international case studies, including Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Ireland, South Korea, Spain and Venezuela.

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