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Theorising capitalist diversity: The uneven and combined development of labour forms
This article seeks to elaborate a framework for the study of diversity in forms
of labour using Trotsky’s theory of uneven and combined development (UCD).
It argues that labour markets are constituted by systemic processes of capital
accumulation and uneven development in the global economy, but that these
processes have highly differentiated outcomes in terms of the forms of labour
that have historically emerged within and across national boundaries. Exploring
some of the neglected elements of different forms of labour, including non-waged
labour, the article demonstrates how we might conceptualise the way in which
combinations of labour forms exist within any given space of the world economy.
Using the examples of both internal and transnational migration, it argues
that charting the social and spatial relations of production, and the labouring
experiences and forms of worker politics associated with them, is an effective way
of understanding the constitution and restructuring of different forms of labour.
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