The New International Division of Labour . Global Transformations and Uneven National Development

GUIDO STAROSTA; GREIG CHARNOCK

Palgrave Macmillan

Año: 2016 p. 280

978-1-137-53871-0

This volume revisits the debate over the new international division of labour (NIDL) that dominated discussions in international political economy and development studies until the early 1990s. It submits that a revised NIDL thesis can shed light on the specificities of capitalist development in various parts of the world today. Taken together, the contributions amount to a novel value-theoretical approach to understanding the NIDL, and one rests upon the distinction between the global economic content that determines the constitution and dynamics of the NIDL and the evolving national political forms that mediate its development. More specifically, the book shows that national developmental processes across the world have been but an expression of the underlying essential unity of the production of relative surplus-value on a world scale.