From: Alejandro Valle Baeza (valle@SERVIDOR.UNAM.MX)
Date: Tue Jan 13 2004 - 09:15:54 EST
Until I know, U.S. productivity is much higher than Mexican productivity but rate of surplus value is higher in Mexico than in the U.S. Gloria Martinez has research showing that, in general, rate of surplus value are higher in underdeveloped countries relative to rich countries. I am sure this is a puzzle to Marxian theory. Alejandro Valle Baeza paul cockshott wrote: >Paul Z: > > > >I'm still rather astonished that you could be thinking that U.S. workers >may be more exploited the Third World workers. I don't get it. If wages >are 5-20% of the U.S. levels, how is productivity in mfg. going to be 20 to >5 times higher in the U.S. when evidence suggests +/- 10% differentials. > > >----------------------- >Paul C: > >The rate of surplus value for the economy as a whole relates >to the share of wages in total value added. The factories that >you take as examples are probably unrepresentative of the general >productivity in the Mexican economy which will in tend to be >substantially lower than in these factories. > >It is quite plausible that across the economy as a whole >the labour productivity may be only 1/5th of the US level. > > > > >
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