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This book analyses the processes, mutations and trends currently characterising the world of work that are bound up within the deep contradictions of a global capitalist system troubled by systemic crisis, where the old Fordist and Keynesian state order has been substituted by a minimal, pro-business neoliberal State founded on the intensive restructuring of economic and productive systems and work organisation, characterised by labour deregulation, flexibility, super-exploitation and social precariousness. This is a work that illustrates the paradigmatic transition from social and labour relations based on job security, comprehensive collective agreements and guaranteed social rights, towards new social relations that find their technical, political and organizational roots in job insecurity, work rotation and monumental social insecurity, generally expressed in the systemic and growing loss of social and labour rights by workers the world over. First published in Spanish by the Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales de la UNAM and Editorial Miguel Ángel de Porrúa as Los rumbos del trabajo. Superexplotación y precariedad social en el siglo XXI , Mexico, 2012.

The super-exploitation of labor is the key category of the Marxist Theory of Dependency. However, its essential role is difficult to grasp at first glance. The hypothesis we propose in this paper is that its understanding and treatment require mediations in function of the dialectical totality that constitute the category of the super-exploitation of labor itself—that is, an analysis of the unity of the multiple relations, conditions, and determinations that constitute and explain it as a phenomenon. Only in this way can the super-exploitation of labor be understood as a category that is both determining and determined by mediations in which not only economic but also social and political dimensions intervene.

El propósito de este artículo es demostrar que la categoría de superexplotación del trabajo, que es la base y el eje del ciclo del capital de la economía dependiente, está inmersa en un conjunto de mediaciones de segundo orden como la lucha de clases, el poder, la cultura, etc. que la sobredeterminan. Para ello, utilizamos la clasificación de Aristóteles de las categorías que relacionamos con la totalidad dialéctica, y concluimos que la superexplotación solo se entiende en toda su magnitud superando el restringido marco del economicismo.

The article maintains that in order to understand the theory of dependence in the slope developed by the Brazilian thinker Ruy Mauro Marini in his Dialectic of Dependence and in other texts, it can only be understood in the conceptual, categorical, methodological and analytical context of the critique of political economy and Marxism, in particular with the inputs of Capital and Marx's Grundrisse, and Lenin's programmatic developments with his theories of the State and imperialism.

RESUMENEl artículo sostiene que para entender la teoría de la dependencia en la vertiente que desarrolló el pensador brasileño Ruy Mauro Marini en su Dialéctica de la dependencia y en otros textos, sólo puede entenderse en el contexto conceptual, categorial, metodológico y analítico de la crítica de la economía política y del marxismo, en particular con los insumos de El capital y los Grundrisse de Marx, y los desarrollos programáticos de Lenin con sus teorías del Estado y del imperialismo.ABSTRACTThe article maintains that in order to understand the theory of dependence in the slope developed by the Brazilian thinker Ruy Mauro Marini in his Dialectic of Dependence and in other texts, it can only be understood in the conceptual, categorical, methodological and analytical context of the critique of political economy and Marxism, in particular with the inputs of Capital and Marx's Grundrisse, and Lenin's programmatic developments with his theories of the State and imperialism.