[pt] A dissertação tem como objeto de investigação a gênese do conceito de trabalho imaterial amplamente desenvolvido e difundido por Antonio Negri. Na perspectiva da esquerda italiana, analisaremos, inicialmente, o impacto da Depressão de 1929 e os dois principais dispositivos, Fordismo e Keynesianismo, desenvolvidos e intensamente expandidos para superar este primeiro grande ciclo de crise do século XX. Na sequencia, trataremos do Operaísmo - movimento surgido na Itália em meio às lutas operárias das décadas de 1960 e 1970 - em seu contexto histórico e temas centrais. O Operaísmo, enquanto movimento que reuniu inúmeros jovens pensadores em torno da proposta de uma releitura da obra marxiana, não se limitou a uma construção teórica, e procurou, sobretudo, criar instrumentos de crítica e de ação para as lutas operárias que se desenrolaram no segundo grande ciclo de crise do capitalismo nos anos 1970. Por fim, passaremos a tratar do conceito de trabalho imaterial - um conceito em construção, razão pela qual são diversas as disputas em tornos dos seus elementos fundamentais. A dimensão biopolítica, os aspectos subjetivo e econômico-político desse conceito serão abordados com base nas formulações elaboradas por Antonio Negri. / [en] The paper has as object of research the genesis of the concept of immaterial labor developed and widely disseminated by Antonio Negri. From the perspective of the Italian left, we analyze, initially, the impact of the Depression of 1929 and the two main devices, Fordism and Keynesianism, developed and expanded intensively to overcome this first major cycle of crisis of the twentieth century. In the sequel, we tackle the Workerism - movement emerged in Italy amid labor struggles of the 1960s and 1970s - in its historical context and central themes. The Workerism while movement that brought together many young thinkers around the proposal of reading Marx s work, sought not merely a theoretical construct, but, above all, create instruments of criticism and action for workers struggles that unfolded in the second great cycle of crisis of capitalism in the 1970s. Finally, we will discuss the concept of immaterial labor - a concept under construction, which has several disputes on lathes of its fundamental elements. We will discuss the biopolitical dimension, and subjective, economic and political aspects of this concept based on formulations developed by Antonio Negri.

This dissertation examines how popular experiences of nature and history in the British Columbia Interior were structured by automobility – the system of objects, spaces, images, and practices that surrounded private automobiles and public roads. The Fordist state poured massive resources into the provincial road network during the period 1920 to 1970, and in the process created new possibilities for leisure and for profit. Motoring was a new, very modern way of experiencing BC, and also an important economic engine. Making the province’s highways and the landscapes that were visible alongside them look appealing to the motoring public became a matter of concern for many different parties. Boosters, businesses, and tourism promoters who stood to benefit from increased automobile travel often cultivated roadside attractions and lobbied the state to do the same. Starting in the early 1940s, the provincial government established numerous parks along the Interior highway network: the two examined here are Manning and Hamber parks. Beginning in the late 1950s it did the same with historical sites: Barkerville, Fort Steele, and several others are examined here. These and other parks and historic sites were established, developed, and managed as roadside amenities, and were used to deliver lessons about nature and history to the motoring public ‘by the road.’ Drawing on a wide range of examples from across the BC Interior, including both successes and failures, this thesis examines how the motoring public’s common landscape experiences were shaped by state-built infrastructure and by various groups’ efforts to manage, manipulate, and modify the landscapes that were visible by the road. / Thesis (Ph.D, History) -- Queen's University, 2012-12-12 23:49:31.501

Drawing upon a periodisation of socio-economic development based on the regulation approach, the paper conducts a historical spatial development analysis of Vienna in its broader territory and multi-level perspective. The National context and the East-West cleavages mark the geography of the study. This periodisation is the basis to understand the strategies of Vienna in changing territorialities, the social forces and discourses that are reflected in the present context of Europeanisation, internationalisation and integration of border regions. A critical institutionalist approach is used to analyse the hegemonic liberal and populist discourses and strategies. The lessons taken in this section build the path to outline windows of opportunity for progressive politics, which are sketch out in the last section of the article. The ideas exposed in the paper are partial results of broader research carried out in the frame of DEMOLOGOS, an EU financed project. (authors' abstract) / Series: SRE - Discussion Papers

This research is a practice-based, theory-led, examination of forms of extraction under capitalism. The thesis addresses the question of where and how does extraction take place, both in and outside of the wage relationship. Directly employing Marx's concept of surplus extraction, but further extending the concept of extraction as an analytic tool, artistic method, and identifying its aesthetic form. Through the production of an original body of artistic video work, I explore three disparate sites where 'extraction' takes place and employ Science Fiction methods of narrative, the utopian impulse and the 'alienation effect' to critique global capitalism. Drawing on political economic theory, I argue that these new 'zones' of extraction have; forced the further 'subjectification' of labour; supported continued and on-going primitive accumulation - through the creation of global space/time; and promoted the intensification of both relative and absolute surplus value, through the mechanisation of reproduction and the blurring of work and life, through digital technology. The Video Trilogy sets up a dialogue between - fictionreality and space-time, and situates current readings of global extraction in a future/past space, where the inconsistencies of capital are played out. Extraction as concept is utilised to bring together, and expand on, both theoretical readings of the political economy, and to identify that extraction can be redeployed as a cultural or artistic form. I argue that extraction is mobilised through culture, but more importantly, I identify the specific cultural forms of extraction itself. By situating the research between theory and practice, I am able to represent, or interpret, the forms extraction takes - appropriating, performing and re-making them as material and subject within the videos. The research contributes to current critiques of capitalism, in critical theory, art theory, political economy and art-practice-as-research. The video submission brings together a range of aesthetic styles and techniques to construct an original alien world, which is an allegory of our own.

Este trabalho busca analisar o Acordo em Controle de Concentrações como um instrumento jurídico em benefício do setor industrial em face ao impacto do pós-fordismo periférico na economia brasileira. Para tal, se busca primeiramente investigar a disciplina do direito da concorrência dentro do sistema de regulação instituído pelo pós-fordismo periférico. Em seguida, passa-se à do Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica (CADE), em especial o procedimento de tomada de decisão no controle de concentrações. Nesse sentido, optou-se pela análise da decisão de aprovação do ato de concentração (fusão) Videolar-Innova, viabilizado por meio de um Acordo em Controle de Concentrações (ACC). Assim, o presente estudo busca verificar se o referido ACC poderia constituir um mecanismo de regulação em benefício ao setor industrial em face do impacto gerado pelas políticas do pós-fordismo. O método a ser utilizado é o materialismo histórico-dialético, e como referencial teórico a Teoria da Regulação e da Derivação. Por fim, por meio da conclusão do trabalho se buscou demonstra a articulação das forças sociais a modelar a política econômica em benefício de determinados setores, em especial o industrial, para enfrentar o processo de desindustrialização e desnacionalização gerados pelas políticas neoliberais no marco do sistema de regulação. Sendo esta articulação dentro das limitações para manobra da política econômica que lhe são impostas. / This paper proposes to analyze the Agreement on Control of Economic Concentration as a juridical instrument in benefit of the industrial sector face to the impact of peripheral post-Fordism on Brazilian economy. In order to achieve this, it has first sought to investigate the discipline of competition law within the system of regulation instituted by the peripheral post-Fordism. Afterwards, it analyses the Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica, especially the decision-making procedures in the control of economic concentration. That is why it was adopted the analysis of the decision to approve the merger agreement Videolar-Innova, which was able due to the Concentration Control Agreement. Therefore, it seeks to verify if this Agreement would constitute a regulation mechanism that benefits the industrial sector towards the impact reproduced by the politics of post-Fordism. The method to be applied is the Dialectical and Historical Materialism and, as theoretical reference, the Regulation and Derivation Theory. The conclusion of this work seeks to demonstrate the articulation of social forces that molds the economic politics in benefit of specific sectors, especially the industrial one, to struggle the deindustrialization and denationalization generated by the neoliberalism politics as a reference to the system of regulation, as this articulation is in the limits of economic politics manoeuvring which is imposed for them.

Esta dissertação ilustra como o regime fordista de acumulação brasileiro foi induzido à sua crise na década de oitenta, pelas políticas de ajuste econômico patrocinadas pelo FMI, e como na década seguinte a política de liberalização da economia terminou por reformatá-lo. Destacam-se as alterações estruturais na economia neste novo ambiente pós-fordista, e evidencia-se como este novo regime de acumulação não permitiu uma ampliação do produto e renda / This master dissertation elucidates how the Brazilian accumulation of fordist type was driven into its crisis in the eighties, by the adjustment policies of International Monetary Fund and how, during the nineties, the liberalization of economy put another one in curse, the so called post-fordist regime. The work approaches the structural changes of the Brazilian economy under this new post-fordist regime, and attempts to show how it was not able foster new economic growth, as expected

Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2016-06-10T15:47:51Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Francisco Coelho Cuogo_.pdf: 1770742 bytes, checksum: 7cd6f90c4f6beae8e9df8d70699489c0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-10T15:47:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Francisco Coelho Cuogo_.pdf: 1770742 bytes, checksum: 7cd6f90c4f6beae8e9df8d70699489c0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-04-12 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / A dissertação que segue se propõe a analisar as transformações ocorridas a partir da década de 1970, com a reestruturação do capitalismo, considerando seus efeitos sobre as características do trabalho e sobre as estruturas organizacionais impactadas pela sociedade informacional. Pretendemos, assim, discutir as mudanças que vêm ocorrendo no contexto profissional, estabelecendo relações com as transformações da economia e do contexto organizacional a partir da transição da era industrial para a era da informação. Nessa conjuntura, buscamos desenvolver uma percepção crítica sobre as exigências que vêm sendo feitas por parte das organizações em relação às competências requeridas do trabalhador contemporâneo e como tais aspectos podem afetar - positiva ou negativamente - a classe trabalhadora. Por isso, abordamos neste trabalho as características da era industrial, estreitando nesta abordagem o trabalho mecanicista, as características do fordismo e seus efeitos sobre o trabalhador taylorista. No tópico seguinte, destacamos a crise do modelo fordista de acumulação, a transição para a acumulação flexível, onde discorremos, também, sobre o toyotismo e o informacionalismo. Em seguida, consideramos os efeitos da economia neoliberal sobre as características e a organização do trabalho, analisando os estímulos conferidos ao trabalho flexível. Buscamos investigar os reflexos das mudanças ocorridas no trabalho da era industrial (sob a perspectiva do modelo fordista) para a era informacional (sob a perspectiva da acumulação flexível e do neoliberalismo) sobre o trabalhador e, mais especificamente, buscamos entender os sentidos deste tipo trabalho para o jovem trabalhador contemporâneo. Para abordar as características do modelo fordista e seus efeitos sobre o trabalhador industrial utilizamos as obras de Harvey (1992), Alves (1999) e Aranha (2006). Ao falar sobre a sociedade informacional e o neoliberalismo foram analisadas as concepções de Castells (2002) e Anderson (1996). Nos aspectos relacionados ao trabalho - bem como sobre a sua flexibilidade - utilizamos como referência as obras de Antunes (2005), Sennet (2006) e Lazzarato (2001). Aproximamos, ainda, alguns conceitos da área da administração, visto que o discurso desta área contribui para legitimar a condição do trabalho na atualidade, principalmente no que diz respeito ao trabalho flexível. Para sustentar estes argumentos recorremos a autores como Eboli (2004), Meister (1999) e Caravantes (2008). A pesquisa desenvolvida nesta dissertação levantou dados qualitativos através de aplicação de questionário com perguntas abertas. Os questionários foram aplicados em dois grupos de profissionais (todos na condição de trabalhadores e estudantes do ensino superior), separados por faixa etária. O primeiro grupo de jovens trabalhadores estava na faixa etária de 18 a 35 anos e o segundo grupo de trabalhadores na faixa etária acima de 36 anos. Dessa forma, objetivamos compreender a percepção destes trabalhadores acerca do trabalho flexível. Para análise das respostas dos questionários utilizamos o método de análise de conteúdo de Bardin (1994). / The following dissertation intends to analyze the changes occurred from the 1970s, with the restructuring of capitalism, considering its effects on labor characteristics and on organizational structures impacted by the information society. We intend, therefore, to discuss the changes taking place in the professional context, establishing relations with the transformation of the economy and the organizational context in a transition age, that means from the industrial to the information age. At this scenario, we seek to develop a critical awareness about the demands that have been made by organizations in relation to the skills required of the contemporary worker and how those aspects can affect - positively or negatively - the working class. So we approached in this project the characteristics of the industrial age, narrowing this approach the mechanistic work, fordism characteristics and their effects on taylorism worker. In the following topics, we highlight the Fordist crisis of accumulation, the transition to flexible accumulation, which deal also about Toyotism and informationalism. Next, we consider the effects of neoliberal economics on the characteristics and organization of work, analyzing the stimuli that it gives flexible working. We seek to investigate the consequences of changes in the work of the industrial era (from the perspective of the fordist model) for the information era (from the perspective of flexible accumulation and neoliberalism) on the worker and, more specific, we seek to understand the meanings of such work for the young contemporary worker. To address the characteristics of the fordist model and its effects on the industrial worker we used the Harvey (1992), Alves (1999) and Aranha (2006). When talking about the information society and neoliberalism were analyzed conceptions of Castells (2002) and Anderson (1996) . The aspects related to work - as well as its flexibility - we use as reference the works of Antunes (2005), Sennett (2006) and Lazzarato (2001). We approached also some concepts of management area, as the speech of this area helps to legitimize the work condition at present, especially with regard to flexible working. To support these arguments resorted to authors such as Eboli (2004), Meister (1999) and Caravantes (2008). The research developed in this dissertation raised qualitative data through a questionnaire with open questions. The questionnaires were applied in two professional groups (all in the condition of workers and students in higher education), separated by age group. The first group of young workers were aged 18-35 years and the second group of workers aged above 36 years. Thus, we aim to understand the perception of workers about flexible working. For analysis of the responses to the questionnaire we used the Bardin content analysis method (1994).

Este trabalho busca analisar o Acordo em Controle de Concentrações como um instrumento jurídico em benefício do setor industrial em face ao impacto do pós-fordismo periférico na economia brasileira. Para tal, se busca primeiramente investigar a disciplina do direito da concorrência dentro do sistema de regulação instituído pelo pós-fordismo periférico. Em seguida, passa-se à do Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica (CADE), em especial o procedimento de tomada de decisão no controle de concentrações. Nesse sentido, optou-se pela análise da decisão de aprovação do ato de concentração (fusão) Videolar-Innova, viabilizado por meio de um Acordo em Controle de Concentrações (ACC). Assim, o presente estudo busca verificar se o referido ACC poderia constituir um mecanismo de regulação em benefício ao setor industrial em face do impacto gerado pelas políticas do pós-fordismo. O método a ser utilizado é o materialismo histórico-dialético, e como referencial teórico a Teoria da Regulação e da Derivação. Por fim, por meio da conclusão do trabalho se buscou demonstra a articulação das forças sociais a modelar a política econômica em benefício de determinados setores, em especial o industrial, para enfrentar o processo de desindustrialização e desnacionalização gerados pelas políticas neoliberais no marco do sistema de regulação. Sendo esta articulação dentro das limitações para manobra da política econômica que lhe são impostas. / This paper proposes to analyze the Agreement on Control of Economic Concentration as a juridical instrument in benefit of the industrial sector face to the impact of peripheral post-Fordism on Brazilian economy. In order to achieve this, it has first sought to investigate the discipline of competition law within the system of regulation instituted by the peripheral post-Fordism. Afterwards, it analyses the Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica, especially the decision-making procedures in the control of economic concentration. That is why it was adopted the analysis of the decision to approve the merger agreement Videolar-Innova, which was able due to the Concentration Control Agreement. Therefore, it seeks to verify if this Agreement would constitute a regulation mechanism that benefits the industrial sector towards the impact reproduced by the politics of post-Fordism. The method to be applied is the Dialectical and Historical Materialism and, as theoretical reference, the Regulation and Derivation Theory. The conclusion of this work seeks to demonstrate the articulation of social forces that molds the economic politics in benefit of specific sectors, especially the industrial one, to struggle the deindustrialization and denationalization generated by the neoliberalism politics as a reference to the system of regulation, as this articulation is in the limits of economic politics manoeuvring which is imposed for them.

In this thesis, I argue that the globalization of production has weakened the power and efficacy of labor unions in the United States. I describe the globalization of production as a set of transformations in both the institutional structure of the economy and in the organization of production, and discuss how these transformations have impacted workers and unions in the American economy. The theoretical framework I employ is the social structure of accumulation approach, which emphasizes the importance of the institutional structures of capitalist economies and how their interaction with forms of production organization and systems of labor control helps to determine levels of aggregate economic growth, the profit rates of individual firms, and the distribution of power, resources, and wealth among economic agents. I argue that the globalization of production involves the transition from the social structure of accumulation of segmentation to the globalized production social structure of accumulation, and the displacement of Fordist mass production by lean production as the dominant paradigm of production organization.Lean production and the globalized production social structure of accumulation involve a transformation in the relationship between firms, workers, and the state. The changing circumstances and economic conditions which these transformations have produced, and the failure of labor unions to understand, appreciate, and effectively respond to them, have been responsible for the rapid and sustained decline in the membership, power, and efficacy of organized labor in the United States. Through case studies on the automobile and clothing industries, I show how the way in which these transformations have materialized in the specific contexts of two industries with different competitive conditions, organizational structures, and levels of capital-intensity have produced very disparate and dissimilar outcomes for the workers in these indust ries.

This historical dissertation investigates the international proliferation of Fordism in politically illiberal settings during the 1920s and 1930s. Based on American, German, and Soviet primary sources, it is the first archive-based study of this process. The dissertation's main finding is that the implementation of Ford's ideas and practices was a key component of illiberal modernization drives - that is, projects of state-led economic growth which explicitly fashioned themselves as alternatives to Western liberal capitalism. This point of view is a departure from previous accounts of the global success of Fordism, which subsume the story under the spread of American market capitalism or portray it as a process of quasi-self-explanatory technology transfer. It is also distinct from the well-known approach in history and the social sciences that describes Fordism as a specifically capitalist production regime (in distinction to a later post-Fordism). The argument pursued here requires a re-interpretation of Ford Motor Company's position within the American corporate arena of the 1920s and 1930s. Undertaken in the opening chapter, this re-examination characterizes the production practice of Ford Motor Company as an illiberal strategic alternative to the American business mainstream. Subsequent chapters trace the reception of Ford's political and business writings abroad, reconstruct the Nazi and Soviet motorization effort in the wake of Ford's model, and examine the transfer of Ford's mass production techniques to Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. The empirical results show that motorization and productive efficiency, both associated with Ford's innovations, became hallmarks of illiberal modernization efforts in these countries. The dissertation highlights the importance of non-market motivations for economic actors and policy-makers. It introduces the term illiberal modernism to describe the motivating power of ideology on economic practice during the interwar years. / History