POLS 196 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Food Regimes, Underconsumption, Ecological Collapse

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 196
• Professor: Bradley Bauerly

Document Summary

Arighi"s regime of forced underconsumption (rfu): the under production of labor power to extract value: based on a variety of forms: gender, race, geography and ecology. Ex: ecology, under reproduction of requirements for human life by the destruction of the natural systems we rely on. 19th century colonial rfu caused ecological collapse and great depression. Neoliberal rfu caused the end of cheap food, as well as ecological, food and financial crises. Formal subsumption: when capital takes command of labor processes that originate outside of the capital relation via the imposition of the wage: subsuming agricultural markets as capital historically incorporates and accommodates them under global circuits of exchange. Real subsumption: the labor processes internally re organized to meet the dictates of capital: the construction of specific world markets centered on a global food regime that enforces asymmetrical global divisions of labor.