2025/07/11 by Nick Bernards · 1 voice
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · #Asian Industrial and Economic Development #Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism #Political Economy and Marxism
paper · doi:10.1080/13563467.2025.2531013
openalex publication_date 2025/07/11 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/15
This article introduces a special issue on ‘Centring Exploitation in Global Political Economy'. The article and broader collection argue for wider engagement with Marxist debates about ‘exploitation' as a way of grasping the continued importance of labour and work amidst the turbulent transformations of contemporary global capitalism. Engaging the problematic exploitation from this perspective demands enquiry into the concrete forms of relational activity through which value is created, circulated and accumulated. Or, in short, it enjoins us to ask: How does some people's activity become other people's wealth? The article moves on to argue that a plural and dynamic view of exploitation is needed in order to adequately grasp how these dynamics operate in past and present capitalism. It closes by considering questions around how the dynamics of exploitation are stabilised and reproduced through processes of racialisation and practices of statecraft.