Super-exploitation: precarity and the proletarian condition through the
perspective of Marxist theory of dependency
- Gil Felix,
- Adrián Sotelo Valencia
Abstract
In this article we analyse the issue of increasing precarity in the
world of work in light of the Brazilian Ruy Mauro Marini's theses and
the concept of super-exploitation. Forged in the domain of a Marxist
theory of dependency, the concept was originally formulated to designate
specific regimes within Latin American social formations. In this
respect, first we review certain global trends in the world of work and
transformation processes in dependent countries' regimes of
super-exploitation, going on then to examine the issue's contemporary
emergence as a phenomenon in central capitalist countries. Finally, we
discuss the category's validity, as well as its implications for
understanding new morphologies of the working class both in Latin
America and across the world.