Workers Who Benefit from the Exploitation of Other Workers

Revista Latinoamericana de Trabajo y Trabajadores

Marcel van der Linden¹ 

[1] International Institute of Social History, The Netherlands;

关键词: solidarity;    inequality;    consumption;    employment;    international division of labour;    imperial mode of living;   

DOI  :  10.48038/revlatt.n1.8

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Often, all too often, global working-class solidarity remains fragile, conditional or fails to be realized in practice, whatever the lofty rhetoric may be. The present paper explores one possible explanation: workers in the North profit from the exploitation of workers in the South through cheap commodities and services, and additional job opportunities. For example, wage-earners in the North can buy T-shirts so advantageously because their real wages are much higher than the real wages of labourers in the Global South. This is what I would like to call a relational inequality within the world working class: some workers are better off because other workers are worse off. The paper presents a very tentative historical outline of global relational inequality since the 1830s.

【 授权许可】

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