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Siobhan Stevenson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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unlimited potential unlimited power microsoft s corporate citizenship in the battle over new social Relations of Production
First Monday, 2010Co-Authors: Siobhan StevensonAbstract:This paper explores the increasingly important role a new corporate social responsibility movement is playing in international development. Using a critical policy approach, the overarching question posed is: what ideological work does Microsoft Corporation’s world–wide philanthropic programs, and specifically its Unlimited Potential (UP) program, perform within the context of contemporary class struggles over the new means and Relations of Production? At the heart of this question is the ongoing battle between the free and open source software movement or FOSS and the proprietary software lobby as represented by Microsoft.
Gísli Pálsson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Biosocial Relations of Production
Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2009Co-Authors: Gísli PálssonAbstract:Nowadays, life itself is one of the most active zones of capitalist Production. Not only has biology been upgraded to Big Science, biological material and information are increasingly the subject of engineering, banking, reProduction, and exchange. The description and broad implications of the refiguring of life itself and its intrusion into economics and politics represent some of the most important issues on the academic agenda at the beginning of the twenty-first century (Palsson 2007). Foucault's works on biopolitics (see, for instance, Foucault 1994) have obviously contributed critical insights with respect to the current refashioning of the human body, illuminating the political and governmental dimensions of these developments (Inda 2005; Rose 2006; Gottweis and Peterson 2008; Nowotny and Testa 2009; Lock and Nguyen 2009). Recently, a series of scholars have revisited the early writings of Marx, sometimes in combination with Foucauldian perspectives, in their attempt to make sense of the political economy of modern biotechnology, including the fragmenting of body parts and the labor process involved. One of the emerging themes in current discussions relates to the conception and role of labor in the reProduction of bodies and body parts. While Marx may not be an obvious source of innovative perspectives on the modern Production of human biovalue, a somewhat unique industry that had not arrived in his time, his early works offer useful insights into contemporary developments.
Hyun-ho Song - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Adam Smith' conception of the social Relations of Production
The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 1997Co-Authors: Hyun-ho SongAbstract:This article as a sequel to Song (1995), 'Adam Smith as an early pioneer of institutional individualism', aims to depict what Smith's conception of social Relations of Production looks like, and draws a tentative conclusion that when grasped in the whole context of Smith's system of social thought, it is neither neoclassical nor Marxian orthodoxy, but can be better appreciated as suggesting an independent - Smithian - perspective. Then, an exploratory claim is submitted to show that Smith's view of class and power Relations is found to bear striking affinities with that of Max Weber, the great German sociologist.
Rebecca Senn Tarlau - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Social(ist) Pedagogies of the MST: Towards New Relations of Production in the Brazilian Countryside
education policy analysis archives, 2013Co-Authors: Rebecca Senn TarlauAbstract:This article explores the social( ist ) pedagogies of the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST), a large agrarian social movement that fights for socialism in the Brazilian countryside, meaning that workers own their own means of Production and collectively produce the food and other products necessary for their communities’ survival. Over the past three decades, activists in the movement have developed an alternative educational proposal for rural schooling that supports these new social Relations of Production. Drawing on major theories of reProduction, cultural Production, and resistance in the field of education, I argue that three theorists—Paul Willis, Paulo Freire, and Antonio Gramsci—are critical in assessing the role of schools in processes of social reProduction. I examine four components of the MST’s social( ist ) pedagogy: the incorporation of manual labor into public schools; the promotion of collective learning; counter-cultural Production; and linking schools to concrete political struggles. Drawing on Willis, Freire, and Gramsci, I argue that the MST’s educational proposal is a limited but real attempt to interrupt dominant social Relations of Production in the Brazilian countryside, thus representing a unique example of social pedagogy in the 21 century.
Deepankar Basu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Relations of Production and Modes of Surplus Extraction in India: Part I - Agriculture
2011Co-Authors: Amit Basole, Deepankar BasuAbstract:This paper uses aggregate-level data, as well as casestudies, to trace out the evolution of some key structural features of the Indian economy, relating both to the agricultural and the informal industrial sector. These aggregate trends are used to infer: (a) the dominant Relations of Production under which the vast majority of the Indian working people labour, and (b) the predominant ways in which the surplus labour of the direct producers is appropriated by the dominant classes. This summary account is meant to inform and link up with ongoing attempts at radically restructuring Indian society. Part I, published this week, covers agriculture, while Part II, to be published next week, inquires into the “informal” industrial sector.
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Relations of Production AND MODES of SURPLUS EXTRACTION IN INDIA
Economic and Political Weekly, 2010Co-Authors: Amit Basole, Deepankar BasuAbstract:This paper uses aggregate-level data, as well as case-studies, to trace out the evolution of some key structural features of the Indian economy, relating both to the agricultural and the informal industrial sector. These aggregate trends are used to infer: (a) the dominant Relations of Production under which the vast majority of the Indian working people labour, and (b) the predominant ways in which the surplus labour of the direct producers is appropriated by the dominant classes. This summary account is meant to inform and link up with on-going attempts at radically restructuring Indian society. JEL Categories: B24, B51
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Relations of Production and modes of surplus extraction in india an aggregate study
2009Co-Authors: Amit Basole, Deepankar BasuAbstract:This paper uses aggregate-level data, as well as case-studies, to trace the evolution of some key structural features of the Indian economy, relating both to the agricultural and the informal industrial sector. These aggregate trends are used to infer: (a) the dominant Relations of Production under which the vast majority of the Indian working people labour, and (b) the predominant ways in which the surplus labour of the direct producers is appropriated by the dominant classes. This summary account is meant to inform and link up with on-going attempts at radically restructuring Indian society.
