Turbulenzen in der Flugindustrie: Arbeitskämpfe gegen den metabolischen Riss der sozialen Reproduktion

Anne

doi:10.32387/prokla.v54i214.2102

Authors

Anne https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1084-3194

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32387/prokla.v54i214.2102

Keywords:

Aviation Industry, Brazil, Metabolic Rift, Occupational Health and Safety, Portugal, Social Reproduction

Abstract

The article proposes the inclusion of the concepts of the metabolism of social reproduction and the metabolic rift, as well as a materialist conception of the laboring body, into social reproduction theory. In concrete terms, the temporal and spatial conflicts of workers in the Brazilian and Portuguese aviation industry over labour protection and physical integrity are looked at. This empirically-led analysis is intended to expand the concept of exploitation, which does not reduce exploitation to the theory of value, but does not separate it from it either.

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