OVEREXPLOITATION OF THE WORKFORCE: fundamentals to understand the health of workers in dependent economies
Dependent capitalism. Superexploitation. Worker’s health.
In this work, we consider the understanding that the reproduction of capital in dependent economies presents certain particularities, and that these particularities are closely intertwined with the historical processes of maturation of developed capitalism - which took place within the scope of the world system. The main feature of the reproduction of capital in dependent economies considered here is the category of overexploitation of the labor force. Through it, we aim to understand the health conditions of Latin American workers. The work is a bibliographic research and is divided into three sections. The first one, The theory of development and the dependency relations in Latin America, which discusses – briefly – the main hypotheses of what is conventionally called the theory of development. The second, Latin American dependent capitalism, which seeks to understand the dependent character of Latin American capitalism. And the third and last one, The overexploitation of the workforce as a touchstone in dependent economies, which links the categories of overexploitation with that of health, to understand the consequences and mediations that Latin American workers suffer.