Cover illustration: Created by María del Carmen Elena Solanes Carraro.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Sotelo Valencia, Adrián, author.
Title: United States in a world in crisis : the geopolitics of precarious work and super-exploitation / by Adrián Sotelo Valencia.
Other titles: Estados Unidos en un mundo en crisis. English
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020] | Series: Studies in critical social sciences, 1877-2110 ; volume160 | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “This work by the distinguished Mexican theorist Adrián Sotelo Valencia explores new dimensions of super-exploitation in a context of the structural crisis of capitalism and imperialism. Steeped in a new generation of radical dependency theory and informed by the legacy of his own mentor, the famous Brazilian Marxist Ruy Mauro Marini, Sotelo rigorously examines prevailing theoretical debates regarding the expansion of super-exploitation in advanced capitalism. Building upon a Marinist framework, he goes beyond Marini to identify new forms of super-exploitation that shape the growing precarity of work. Sotelo demonstrates the inextricable link between reliance upon fictitious capital and the intensification of super-exploitation. Poignant contrasts are drawn between US capitalism and Mexico that reveal the nefarious new forms of imperialist dependency”-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019042157 (print) | LCCN 2019042158 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004415645 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004415652 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Precarious employment--United States--History--21st century. | Labor--Social aspects. | Globalization. | United States--Politics and government--21st century.
Classification: LCC HD5858.U6 S6713 2020 (print) | LCC HD5858.U6 (ebook) | DDC 331.25/7290973--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019042157
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019042158
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ISSN 1877-2110
ISBN 978-90-04-41564-5 (hardback)
ISBN 978-90-04-41565-2 (e-book)
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To Mary, for walking with me on the same path, as always.