CAPITAL / LABOR RELATIONS IN THE ERA OF FINANCIALIZATION. MODALITIES OF SOCIAL INCLUSION.

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20873/2526-1487V3N3P139

Abstract

What meanings does the subjectivity of wage earners assume in contemporary capitalism in which finance prevails? The subjectivityisarticulatedwiththe social relations in whichtheworkers are inserted, and for themajority, thedominationof financial capital with a political, cultural andideologicalkeytendstoimposeitselfatthemoment. Withfinancialization, capital seekstoconfrontworkersconceived as pure labor costs, emptiedofsubjectivitythroughvarious paths. Throughprecariousness, throughtheexpropriationofvarious labor rights; byincreasingautomation, throughtechnologicalsubordination in workingconditions; throughthesubstitutionof labor contracts for commercialcontracts, shiftingthe status ofworkertothe figure oftheentrepreneur. The salaried employees, who continue to constitute the majority of workers, resist the emptying of their subjectivity through direct action in labor conflicts, or through the defense of collective rights sustained in the labor institutions that still remain. Nowadays in Argentina, union workers express a subjectivity strengthened by the reconstruction of a social center that articulates the working class with the middle classes, which drives mobilization against the adjustment policies implemented by a late neoliberalist regime.

 

Keywords:Financialization; Salaried Employee; Precariousness; Corporativism; Mobilization.

Author Biography

Hector Palomino, Universidade de Buenos Aires -UBA

Professor consultor de Relações do Trabalho
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais – Universidade de Buenos Aires - UBA

Published

2018-12-04

How to Cite

Palomino, H. (2018). CAPITAL / LABOR RELATIONS IN THE ERA OF FINANCIALIZATION. MODALITIES OF SOCIAL INCLUSION. Trabalho (En)Cena, 3(3), 139–154. https://doi.org/10.20873/2526-1487V3N3P139

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Artigo de Pesquisa