The New International Division of Labour

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction: The New International Division of Labour and the Critique of Political Economy Today

   • Greig Charnock, Guido Starosta

   Pages 1-22

3. Capital and the International Division of Labour

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. The General Rate of Profit and Its Realisation in the Differentiation of Industrial Capitals

      • Juan Iñigo Carrera

      Pages 25-53

   3. The Global Accumulation of Capital and Ground-Rent in ‘Resource Rich’ Countries

      • Gastón Caligaris

      Pages 55-77

   4. Revisiting the New International Division of Labour Thesis

      • Guido Starosta

      Pages 79-103

4. Country Case Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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   2. ‘Post-neoliberalism’ in the International Division of Labour: The Divergent Cases of Ecuador and Venezuela

      • Thomas F. Purcell

      Pages 107-126

   3. The New International Division of Labour in ‘High-Tech Production’: The Genesis of Ireland’s Boom in the 1990s

      • Tomás Friedenthal, Guido Starosta

      Pages 127-156

   4. New International Division of Labour and Differentiated Integration in Europe: The Case of Spain

      • Greig Charnock, Thomas F. Purcell, Ramon Ribera-Fumaz

      Pages 157-180

5. Sectoral Case Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181

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   2. Transnational Corporations and the ‘Restructuring’ of the Argentine Automotive Industry: Change or Continuity?

      • Alejandro Fitzsimons, Sebastián Guevara

      Pages 183-213

   3. Patterns of ‘State-Led Development’ in Brazil and South Korea: The Steel Manufacturing Industries

      • Nicolas Grinberg

      Pages 215-244

6. Back Matter

   Pages 245-252

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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.

• International Political Economy
• Development Studies
• Global capitalism
• Global economic content
• Value theory
• Globalization
• Globalization
• Uneven development
• Marx

“This important collection of essays presents a critical rehabilitation of the concept of the New International Division of Labour, which framed our understanding of global capitalism in the 1980s. Original theoretical developments are applied to a range of countries and sectors, offering new insights into the variegated forms taken by global capital today.” (Hugo Radice, University of Leeds, UK)

“Most accounts of globalisation focus on corporations and states.  Each chapter in this extremely important collection illuminates how theoretically impoverished and disorienting such accounts are.  Each chapter proves the superiority of Marxian analyses centering on capital, ground rent, and the productive subjectivity of working men and women across the globe.” (Tony Smith, Iowa State University, USA)

“This collectionemphatically puts value back into debates over the global division of labour. Theoretically sophisticated, closely argued, and expressly political, it opens new pathways for critical scholarship.” (Marcus Taylor, Queen’s University, Canada)

• Politics, University of Manchester, Chadderton, Oldham, Greater Manches, United Kingdom

  Greig Charnock

• University of Quilmes and CONICET, Economics and Administration National, Bernal, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  Guido Starosta

Greig Charnock is Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Manchester, UK. 

Guido Starosta is Professor in the History of Economic Thought at the National University of Quilmes and Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), Argentina.

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