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Peripheral Labour and Accumulation on a World Scale in the Green Transitions

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  • Max Ajl

    (Department of Conflict and Development Studies, University of Ghent, 9000 Ghent, Belgium)

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This commentary turns a critical lens on the perspectives of labour in the potential green transition. It shows what changes when we focus on worldwide social labour—the labour which most of humanity currently performs—and its worldwide impact, going beyond climate to damages from mining and to biodiversity and other elements of the ecology. Such an optic forces scepticism about approaches which only consider the North when it comes to a large-scale green transition. Indeed, this paper argues, using illustrative examples, how such approaches rely on suppressing the historical role of colonialism and imperialism in making First World (core) development possible. It shows how lenses such as “social reproduction” or policies such as “universal health care” focused only on the core reproduction of worldwide patterns of domination. It then puts forward the outlines of an alternative approach to decent work in the context of a worldwide green transition toward a non-hierarchical world system.

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  • Max Ajl, 2023. "Peripheral Labour and Accumulation on a World Scale in the Green Transitions," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 12(5), pages 1-10, May.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:12:y:2023:i:5:p:274-:d:1138653
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