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Pérez, Pablo Ernesto
Marshall, Adriana
Materias
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
2003-2012
Idioma
spa
Extent
222 p.
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Cobertura
ARG
2003-2012
Abstract
Based on approaches focused on the conditions of capital accumulation and workers' struggle, throughout this thesis, I maintain the need to study the interaction of the limits of wage variation to explain the sectoral inequality in Argentina between 2003 and 2012. Through a quantitative ethodological strategy, with specific techniques for each chapter, I analyze the differential wage rates related with productive characteristics and union action. In particular, I argue that two forces, related to the sectoral dynamics, tend to differentiate the rates of wage variations. On one side, refered to the effective upper limit of wages, the increasing differences in sectoral profit rates (governed by the development of dominant capitals in each branch of activity) assign differential capacities to grant wage increases, without questioning the "normal" process of capital accumulation. Thus, the productive
characteristics are defining to understand the capital accumulation at the sectoral level. On the other side, the differential conditions of workers' organization and struggle (wage conflict), expressed in the lower effective limit of wages, indicate a differential bargaining power and, therefore, a different probability of success of the struggle.
In the analytic synthesis proposed, the interpretation of inequality in relation to the effective upper limit of wages, starts from considerations about capitalist competition and regulatory capital, which guide the process of accumulation. In summary, the conditions of accumulation of the leading capitals of the competitive process, give a general framework for the study of sectoral dynamics. Meanwhile, the effective lower limit refers to the incidence of organized workers in the wage determination.
The methodological contribution involves rethinking the theoretical categories in terms of their empirical dimensions. Proposed indicators refer to limits. First, from the sectoral profit rates and the intensity of use of the factors, we work with the effective upper limit to the wage increase. The evidence indicates that this limit expands for the whole of capital (greater possibilities of granting wage increases), but the sectoral differences in the profit margins are also widened.
Second, on the basis of the number of collective bargaining and wage disputes promoted by the trade union organization, the lower limit indicator is constructed. The evidence exposes differential conditions of organization and struggle of the
workers, which positions some unions in better conditions to achieve salary increases.
In summary, both the incidence of the upper limit and the lower limit favors the wage disparity. The approach proposed in this thesis consists of a complex elaboration where the determination of wages in the different branches of activity relative to the forces linked to the dynamics of one or the other limit of variation, favor conditions of wage differentiation.
characteristics are defining to understand the capital accumulation at the sectoral level. On the other side, the differential conditions of workers' organization and struggle (wage conflict), expressed in the lower effective limit of wages, indicate a differential bargaining power and, therefore, a different probability of success of the struggle.
In the analytic synthesis proposed, the interpretation of inequality in relation to the effective upper limit of wages, starts from considerations about capitalist competition and regulatory capital, which guide the process of accumulation. In summary, the conditions of accumulation of the leading capitals of the competitive process, give a general framework for the study of sectoral dynamics. Meanwhile, the effective lower limit refers to the incidence of organized workers in the wage determination.
The methodological contribution involves rethinking the theoretical categories in terms of their empirical dimensions. Proposed indicators refer to limits. First, from the sectoral profit rates and the intensity of use of the factors, we work with the effective upper limit to the wage increase. The evidence indicates that this limit expands for the whole of capital (greater possibilities of granting wage increases), but the sectoral differences in the profit margins are also widened.
Second, on the basis of the number of collective bargaining and wage disputes promoted by the trade union organization, the lower limit indicator is constructed. The evidence exposes differential conditions of organization and struggle of the
workers, which positions some unions in better conditions to achieve salary increases.
In summary, both the incidence of the upper limit and the lower limit favors the wage disparity. The approach proposed in this thesis consists of a complex elaboration where the determination of wages in the different branches of activity relative to the forces linked to the dynamics of one or the other limit of variation, favor conditions of wage differentiation.
Título obtenido
Doctor de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales