A Brief Review of the Content of Super-exploitation of Workers in Dependent Peripheral Economies

Abstract

This paper uses the Marxist theory of dependence, which identifies the super-exploitation of workers as an essential characteristic of the dependent condition, a fact that is marked by the intensification of the transfer of wealth produced in the periphery and accumulated in the countries of the center. It intends to demonstrate how capital accumulation leads to the formation of an industrial reserve army and how this contributes to the forms of super-exploitation of labor and to its strengthening in dependent countries, particularly those of Latin America.