Buch, Englisch, Band 216/17, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 538 g
Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences / New Scholarship in Political Economy
Buch, Englisch, Band 216/17, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 538 g
Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences / New Scholarship in Political Economy
ISBN: 978-90-04-50711-1
Verlag: Brill
In Lost-Time Injury Rates Rodrigo Finkelstein examines the information-intensive operations of recording and processing work-related accidents, diseases and fatalities carried out by Workers’ Compensation Systems. Situated within the field of political economy of information, this critique contributes to the understanding of how injury rates service a specific sector of the economy by constructing lost labour power for sale.
The central argument of this critique can be stated as follows: grounded in the capitalist mode of production, injury rates constitute a historical social relation that, by taking the semblance of inductive indicators, conceal specific capitalist relations that bring about the exchange and distribution of lost labour power among capitalists and wage labourers.
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Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Arbeitsplatz, Arbeitsschutz, Gefahrstoffschutz
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
Weitere Infos & Material
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgement
1. Overview
Introduction
My Encounter with Injury Rates
Injury Rates as a Collection of Inductive Indicators
How to Approach Injury Rates
Theoretical Contribution
Outline of the Successive Chapters
2. Preconditions
Introduction
First Precondition: Wage Labour
Second Precondition: The Conflict Between the Forces of Production and the Relations of Production
Third Precondition: A Burgeoning Capitalist Class
Fourth Precondition: Statistics and Probability
Fifth Precondition: Money
Sixth Precondition: A Capitalist State
3. Insurance Boards: The Landlords of the Circuit of Metamorphosis of Lost Labour Power
Introduction
Insurance Boards as Part of the Information Sector
Risk as Expected Lost Labour Power
Risk as Information
The Informational Landlords of the Circuit of Metamorphosis of Lost Labour Power
Stages of the Circuit of Metamorphosis of Lost Labour Power
4. The Lost-Labour-Power Commodity
Introduction
The Commodity
The Information Commodity
The Lost-Labour-Power Commodity
The Satisfaction of Needs as a Means of Production
Use Value
Exchange Value
Value
Value and Lost Value: The Transformation of Non-Equivalents
The Commodification of Lost Labour Power
The Working-Day-Lost Moment
The Reporting Moment
The Recording Moment
The Processing Moment
The Programing Moment
5. The Fetishism of the Lost-Labour-Power Commodity
Introduction
Fetishism and Lost Labour Power
The Fetishism of the Lost-Labour-Power Commodity
The Value Fluctuation of the Commodity
Procedurally Hidden Social Relations
Structurally Hidden Social Relations
The Relative Value and Price Fluctuation of the Commodity
Class-Hidden Social Relations
6. Lessons from the Social Totality
Introduction
Understanding Lost-Time Injury Rates as a Historical Socioeconomic Formation
Lost-Time Injury Rates as a Class Relation of Exchange and Distribution
Lost-Time Injury Rates Belong to Capital
The Value Forms of Lost Labour Power
The Lost-Labour-Power Commodity is not the Bearer of Lost Value
Lost-Time Injury Rates do not Provide Accurate Information
Lost-Time Injury Rates as a Structural Epistemological Ideology
Coda: The Solidification between Oppressor and Oppressed
References
Index
