Commodity Fetishism Again. Labour, Subjectivity and Commodities in “Supply Chains Capitalism”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16964606 |
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| Authors | Veronica Redini (0000-0002-1304-2248, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 353-362 |
| Publication date | 2018-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Open Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2451-3474 • E-ISSN: 2451-3474 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/culture-2018-0032 |
| OpenAlex | W2902835502 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
The aim of this essay is to reconnect Marx’s analysis of commodity fetishism and the use that he makes of this anthropological category with a general critique of global capitalist relationships. Based on Marx's anthropological insights into the concept of fetishism, it explores the political relationship between labour, subjectivity and commodities in supply chains capitalism. For this purpose, it empirically examines the materials of ethnographic research on the production of Italian companies that produce in an Eastern European country (Romania) and then sell mainly to countries in Western Europe. In this way, the spatial separation between the places where the investments are made (production) and those where profits are generated (market) becomes very clearcut, just like the alienating division between people and the products of their work. In the light of the Marxian analysis of the commodity form, this detachment will be analysed in a fragment of the productive, organisational and social mosaic of contemporary capitalism
Capitalism · Commodity · Division of labour · Economics · Economy · Epistemology · Fetishism · Financialization · Market economy · Mode of production · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Politics · Relations of production · Sociology · Subjectivity · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Anthropology · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development · Law
Social Upgrading and Labour in Global Production Networks
Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism
Capitalisme, désir et servitude
Uncertain Transition
Supply Chains and the Human Condition
Constrained agency? Re-evaluating the geographies of labour
Globalisation, Market Civilisation, and Disciplinary Neoliberalism
Industrial Clusters and the Governance of the Global Value Chain
Global production networks and the analysis of economic development
Neoliberalism as Exception
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