Power, Production and Racialization in Global Labor Recruitment and Supply

Abstract

This chapter analyzes the racialized dynamics of general social reproduction to explore ways in which the labor-capital relation as a totality is reproduced, albeit through different configurations of social relations, institutional forms, and ideological frameworks. Considerable emphasis is placed on the strategies of securing labor supply. Studying historical tendencies of labor supply affords an opportunity to examine various regimes and patterns of accumulation. Since all processes of accumulation have socially necessary objective conditions for stable reproduction, the analysis carried out here is also about those very conditions.