Understanding Outsourcing and Subcontracting: An Approach from the Theory of Surplus Value

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 114-126
Author(s):  
Martín Rodríguez Miglio
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Surplus Value

A critical analysis of outsourcing studies dating from the mid-1980s to the present lays the groundwork for a new understanding of its rationale. Relying on the idea of production in contemporary capitalism as involving both labor and valorization processes, this approach explains outsourcing as arising from the requirements of capitalist accumulation. Un análisis crítico de los estudios de tercerización que datan de mediados de la década de 1980 hasta el presente sienta las bases para una nueva comprensión de su lógica. Basado en la idea de que la producción en el capitalismo contemporáneo involucra procesos tanto de trabajo como de valorización, este enfoque explica que la subcontratación surge de los requerimientos de la acumulación capitalista.

The Time Dimension in Marxian Social Theory

2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 147-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolf Heydebrand
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Financial Capital ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Main Criterion ◽  
Time Dimension ◽  
Marxian Theory ◽  
Surplus Value ◽  
Labor Theory

This article considers praxis, labor, and history as aspects of time that are constitutive of Marxian theory. The transition from ‘praxis’ to the critical analysis of capitalism in the labor theory of surplus value is discussed. The main part of the article suggests steps for analyzing the historical dimension of capitalist globalization. First, the forms of capital and their trajectories, e.g. commercial, productive, and financial capital, are distinguished. Second, transnational capitalist expansion is described and explained, using the movement of finance capital as the main criterion of historical periodization. Third, the article shows the importance of a unique moment of historical time, namely the major part of the 20th century, for making Marxian theorizing amenable to certain standards of explanatory social theory.

scholarly journals The Medium is the Marketplace: Digital Systems and the Intensification of Consumption

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee McGuigan ◽  
Graham Murdock
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Digital Systems ◽  
Surplus Value ◽  
De Se ◽  
Business As Usual ◽  
Point Of Departure

Taking Marx’s analysis as the point of departure, and drawing on a range of concrete examples, this article argues that rather than concentrating on the “new” forms of social and economic intercourse animated by digital media, and especially internet-enabled mobile devices, critical analysis needs to trace the ways in which digital consumption is intensifying the progressive integration of marketing, marketplaces, and forms of payment that have been central to the generation of surplus value and the maintenance of “business as usual,” from the emergence of the modern consumer system at the turn of the twentieth century.Cet article a recours d’abord à l’analyse de Marx puis à un éventail d’exemples concrets pour soutenir que l’analyse critique, plutôt que de se concentrer sur de « nouvelles » formes d’interaction sociale et économique engendrées par les médias numériques, y compris en particulier parmi ces derniers les appareils mobiles avec accès internet, a besoin de recenser les manières dont la consommation numérique est en train d’intensifier l’intégration graduelle du marketing, des marchés et des modes de paiement qui ont été au centre de la création de plus-value et du maintien du statu quo à partir de l’émergence du système de consommation moderne au début du vingtième siècle.

379: A Critical Analysis of the Interpretation of Biochemical Recurrence in Surgically Treated Patients using the Revised ASTRO Criterion–"NADIR +2"

2007 ◽  
Vol 177 (4S) ◽  
pp. 126-126
Author(s):  
Matthew E. Nielsen ◽  
Danil V. Makarov ◽  
Elizabeth B. Humphreys ◽  
Leslie A. Mangold ◽  
Alan W. Partin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Biochemical Recurrence ◽  
Critical Analysis

Effectiveness of Programs for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amaia Del Campo ◽  
Marisalva Fávero
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Prevention Programs ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sexual Abuse Prevention ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Methodological Considerations

Abstract. During the last decades, several studies have been conducted on the effectiveness of sexual abuse prevention programs implemented in different countries. In this article, we present a review of 70 studies (1981–2017) evaluating prevention programs, conducted mostly in the United States and Canada, although with a considerable presence also in other countries, such as New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The results of these studies, in general, are very promising and encourage us to continue this type of intervention, almost unanimously confirming its effectiveness. Prevention programs encourage children and adolescents to report the abuse experienced and they may help to reduce the trauma of sexual abuse if there are victims among the participants. We also found that some evaluations have not considered the possible negative effects of this type of programs in the event that they are applied inappropriately. Finally, we present some methodological considerations as critical analysis to this type of evaluations.

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