A lot of writing on renewable energy depicts the industry as "laborless," suggesting that workers in the industry aren't really central to the politics of the "energy transition."

My new article in @societyandspace.bsky.social shows how mistaken this view is.

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Great article by Jon Las Heras, developing the work of Juan Iñigo Carrera, Guido Starosta and colleagues into an emphatic critique of the most widespread and ostensibly radical forms of "positivist" Marxism 🔥

www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

On that topic, see Starosta’s (2010) path-breaking article in "Antipode" on Global Commodity Chains and the Marxian Law of Value.

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Great article by Gastón Caligaris, Alejandro Fitzsimons, and Guido Starosta in "Science & Society" on the determination of Socially Necessary Labor Time (SNLT), spelling out their own position vis-à-vis a major recent debate in the critique of political economy

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