Bringing labor back
Financialized inclusion and survival struggles in the periphery of the periphery
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4939494 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erica Souza Siqueira (0000-0003-4280-6320, Department of Technology and Data Science, Fundação Getulio Vargas, FGV/EAESP, Brazil, corresponding author), Isleide Arruda Fontenelle (0000-0001-5607-324X, Department of Social and Legal Sciences, Fundação Getulio Vargas, FGV/EAESP, Brazil) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 699-716 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0308518x231214945 |
| OpenAlex | W4390051481 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 31 |
This article examines how financial platforms address the value realization crisis within contemporary capitalism in "the periphery of the periphery." Drawing from Marxist political economy, particularly in the context of its interpretation in peripheral spaces, we empirically studied the introduction of a digital microcredit platform in the living and working space-time of informal workers in Brazil's periphery. Expanding on the household financialization literature, we scrutinize how this organization extracts value directly from living labor. Through dialectical analysis, we investigate how informal workers fearfully adhere to microcredit while cultivating invisibility practices, constituting forms of resistance against the advance of the microcredit platform. These workers' labor-life narratives illustrate how credit adherence, while alluring, poses a threat to transform their lives, not only by leading to indebtedness but also by exposing the survival practices that enable their precarious existence on the fringes of the system, which we term "survival struggles." These struggles manifest in the blurred boundaries between the center and the periphery, as well as between production and reproduction, creating an intersection between the concepts of survival and boundary struggles
Capitalism · Dialectic · Economics · Financialization · Invisibility · Market economy · Marxist philosophy · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Precarity · Reproduction · Sociology · Temporality · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Gender Studies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Sharing Economy and Platforms
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Introduction
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |