Работна сила в движение. Капиталистическият начин на социално възпроизводство в точката на напрежение между фиксиране и освобождаване на потенциалния работник
Moving Labor Power. The Capitalist Mode of Social Reproduction in the Gap Between Fixing and Freeing of Potential Laborers

Summary/Abstract: The article zooms onto the relation between the movement of labor power and capitalist modes of production and social reproduction that form vis-à-vis the taming, slowing down, and accelerating the speed of that same movement. I coin the notion of moving labor power which allows me to analyse the moments that arise between the transformation of body power into labor power (social reproduction) and labor power into labor (production). Marx’s conception of labor power as an „elastic potential“ and Foucault’s understanding that labor power must be first tamed in order to be fixed to production apparatuses allow me to think through the development of capitalist relations as continuously going through a double dynamic of fixing and freeing of labor power spatially. The combination between these approaches enables me to analyse the ways in which the capacity of the body to move is being entangled in differentiated regimes of movement and relations that arise between labor and migration apparatuses. I use two cases: the refugee and the freely moving pauperized.

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