Workers Who Benefit from the Exploitation of Other Workers
Often, all too often, global working-class solidarity remains fragile, conditional or fails to be realized in practice, whatever the lofty rhetoric may be. The present paper explores one possible explanation: workers in the North profit from the exploitation of workers in the South through cheap co...
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2020-11-01
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Often, all too often, global working-class solidarity remains fragile, conditional or fails to be realized in practice, whatever the lofty rhetoric may be. The present paper explores one possible explanation: workers in the North profit from the exploitation of workers in the South through cheap commodities and services, and additional job opportunities. For example, wage-earners in the North can buy T-shirts so advantageously because their real wages are much higher than the real wages of labourers in the Global South. This is what I would like to call a relational inequality within the world working class: some workers are better off because other workers are worse off. The paper presents a very tentative historical outline of global relational inequality since the 1830s.
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| spelling | doaj.art-d301832994624412ba06281c90c10bda2022-12-22T04:04:52ZengRed Latinoamericana de Trabajo y Trabajadores (REDLATT)Revista Latinoamericana de Trabajo y Trabajadores2667-32312020-11-01110.48038/revlatt.n1.8Workers Who Benefit from the Exploitation of Other WorkersMarcel van der Linden0International Institute of Social History, The Netherlands Often, all too often, global working-class solidarity remains fragile, conditional or fails to be realized in practice, whatever the lofty rhetoric may be. The present paper explores one possible explanation: workers in the North profit from the exploitation of workers in the South through cheap commodities and services, and additional job opportunities. For example, wage-earners in the North can buy T-shirts so advantageously because their real wages are much higher than the real wages of labourers in the Global South. This is what I would like to call a relational inequality within the world working class: some workers are better off because other workers are worse off. The paper presents a very tentative historical outline of global relational inequality since the 1830s. https://www.revista.redlatt.org/revlatt/article/view/8solidarityinequalityconsumptionemploymentinternational division of labourimperial mode of living |
| spellingShingle | Marcel van der Linden Workers Who Benefit from the Exploitation of Other Workers Revista Latinoamericana de Trabajo y Trabajadores solidarity inequality consumption employment international division of labour imperial mode of living |
| title | Workers Who Benefit from the Exploitation of Other Workers |
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| title_short | Workers Who Benefit from the Exploitation of Other Workers |
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| topic | solidarity inequality consumption employment international division of labour imperial mode of living |
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