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The Mediations of Super-exploitation

A Methodological Proposal for Understanding New Dependency
Buch | Softcover
200 Seiten
2026
Haymarket Books (Verlag)
979-8-88890-819-8 (ISBN)
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A succinct analysis of the process of super-exploitation in the present-day context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.



Drawing upon methodological insights from Hungarian Marxist István Mészáros, Brazilian Marxist Ruy Mauro Marini, and others, Adrián Sotelo Valencia demonstrates the pivotal importance of analyzing second order mediations as he builds an innovative, expanded model of structural dependency. The result is a more holistic, dialectical grasp of the contradictory dynamics of contemporary imperialism where Capital globally deploys technology for automation in an unsustainable drive for profit that displaces labor and increasingly threatens the reproduction of the global labor force. Empirical evidence presented throughout this work serves to reinforce its powerful, updated articulation of Marxist Dependency Theory.

Adrián Sotelo Valencia is Professor and researcher at the Center for Latin American Studies of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the UNAM in Mexico City. He has authored numerous works on labor, capitalist crisis, and development, including Global Labour in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Brill, 2023), United States in a World in Crisis (Brill, 2020), Sub-Imperialism Revisited (Brill, 2017) and The Future of Work (Brill, 2015).

List of Tables, Graphs and Figures 

Foreword 



Introduction



Part 1: The Mediations of Super-exploitation





1 Second Order Mediations in the Epistemology and Method of Mészáros

 Introduction

 1.1 Dependency and the Super-Exploitation of Labor

 1.2 Dialectical Totality, Implied Order, and Mediations in Social Thought

 1.3 Mészáros’ First and Second Order Mediations

 1.4 The Exploitation and Super-Exploitation of Labor in Second-Order Mediations

 1.5 The Super-Exploitation of Labor: Categorical Attributes

 Conclusion



Part 2: Capitalism’s Polycrisis and the World of Work





2 Super-Exploitation, Dismeasure of Value, and Fictitious Capital: The Roots of the Crisis

 Introduction

 2.1 Globalization and the New International Division of Labor

 Conclusion



Part 3: Labor, the Social Sciences, and Dependency





3 Exploring Dependency and the World of Work

 Introduction

 3.1 The “Approach” of Dependency without Theory

 3.2 Dependency within the Framework of World-System Analysis

 3.3 The Transformation of Dependency Theory into the Marxist Theory of Dependency

 3.4 Theoretical and Methodological Frameworks of the Marxist Theory of Dependency

 Conclusion



4 The Trajectory and Debates Surrounding Dependency

 Introduction

 4.1 The Third Industrial Revolution and Theories of the “End of Work”

 4.2 Work and Its Place in Dependency Currents

 4.3 The Locus of Labor in Dependency Theory

 4.4 Labor in the Marxist Theory of Dependency

 4.5 Dissolving the Marxist Theory of Dependency to “Renew” It

 Conclusion



Part 4: Mediations, Super-exploitation, and Advanced Capitalism





5 Homogeneity and Heterogeneity: Two Morphologies of the Same Process

 Introduction

 5.1 Structural Heterogeneity

 5.2 Capital Homogenization in the Context of Globalization

 5.3 Functional Super-Exploitation in Advanced Capitalist Countries

 Conclusion

General Conclusion



Appendix: Theoretical Currents

References

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 14.7.2026
Übersetzer David Stiles Sparks
Zusatzinfo Illustrations
Verlagsort Chicago
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 228 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-13 979-8-88890-819-8 / 9798888908198
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