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3. The Political Economy of Mass Strikes in the Global Crisis

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Abstract

Global capitalism has restructured production networks, and the precarity-informality regime is the basis of those networks at the level of the labour regime. Strikes after 2008 in non-core countries confronted lower growth rates and the scenario of a Kondratieff downswing.

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Vorheriges Kapitel A New Theory of Strikes: Moving Beyond Eurocentrism
Nächstes Kapitel A Protracted Struggle: Strikes in the Automobile Sector in India
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The process of unequal exchange also means that the value of a shoe or mobile phone produced in a non-core country is mainly registered in the GDP of the country of sale which is in many cases a country with a higher wage level. This means that mainstream GDP numbers and also trade data rather omit this sort of value transfer and “are simply incapable of explaining the value capture” (Roy 2017, 34).
 
2
The European model of industrialisation “was sustainable only through the safety valve allowed by the mass emigration to the Americas. It would be absolutely impossible for the countries of the periphery today – who make up 80 % of the world’s people, of which almost half are rural – to reproduce this model. They would need five or six Americas to be able to ‘catch up’ in the same way” (Amin 2014, 15).
 
3
If the same percentage of the population would emigrate from the Global South as was emigrating from Europe between 1850 and 1920, this would amount to an emigration of 800 million people (Smith 2016, 180).
 
4
James Cronin agrees in principle but underlines that he does not find any connection between strikes and economic upswing prior to 1850: “Then protest varied more closely with hardship, flaring up during years of high prices or industrial depression; and the most explosive situations arose when consumption and employment crises intersected” (1979a, 126).
 
5
See also Cronin: “Strike waves appear to come toward the end of either phase of a ‘long wave’ during a short-term upswing” (1979b, 39). The only problem with Kelly’s view is that he adopts Kondratieff’s periodization which would have required a minor strike wave in the mid-1990s. He does not address this contradiction (1998, 83–89).
 
7
These data go back to the ILO strike statistics on https://​www.​ilo.​org
 
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Metadaten
Titel
The Political Economy of Mass Strikes in the Global Crisis
verfasst von
Jörg Nowak
Copyright-Jahr
2019
Buch
Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-05374-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-05375-8

Copyright-Jahr: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05375-8_3