Peripheral Accumulation, Labour Power Absorption and Relative Surplus-Population: some basic remarks


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Employment and unemployment are issues of crucial importance, especially in the so-called 'Third World' countries where the magnitude of unemployment has reached impressive levels. In reply to this a large number of studies have recently appeared. Nevertheless, Marxist contributions have so far been relatively scarce, especially at a theoretical level. The aim of this paper is to develop, from a Marxist perspective, some basic theoretical remarks on the employment and unemployment issues in relation to peripheral social formations.



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  • labour
  • accumulation
  • labour power
  • process
  • production
  • power
  • capital
  • development
  • accumulation process
  • labour power absorption
  • formation
  • supernumerary population
  • relation
  • population
  • function
  • stage
  • surplus value
  • force
  • commodity
  • surplus-population