The debate on food sovereignty theory: agrarian capitalism,dispossession and agroecology

This contribution reviews recent critiques of the food sovereignty framework. In particular it engages with the debate between Henry Bernstein and Philip McMichael and analyzes their different conceptualizations of agrarian capitalism. It critically identifies tendencies in food sovereignty approaches to assume a food regime crisis, to one-sidedly emphasize accumulation by dispossession and enclosure and thereby to overlook the importance of expanded reproduction, and to espouse a romantic optimism about farmer-driven agroecological knowledge which is devoid of modern science. Alternatives to current modernization trajectories cannot simply return to the peasant past and to the local. Instead, they need to recognize the desires of farmers to be incorporated into larger commodity networks, the importance of industrialization and complex chains for feeding the world population, and the support of state and science, as well as social movements, for realizing a food sovereign alternative.     

Productivity,craftwork and flexibility: the Mobil agreements

ABSTRACT

Using original documents, this paper describes and analyses the case study of one of the productivity bargaining agreements from a leading exponent of productivity bargaining, Mobil’s Coryton Refinery. As well as being important in the UK oil industry these agreements spread throughout the economy. They resulted in major concessions by the unions to relax inter-craft and craft-production trade boundaries and to changes in work methods. These are illustrated in detail and placed in context. Such changes were heralded as ‘new look industrial relations’ and as such were based on a conception of joint regulation. However, other interpretations are possible, and these are then explored and discussed.     

结构性变动对劳动生产率的影响：模型与实证

结构性改革的重点是通过经济结构变动、调整和优化,在市场配置的基础上充分促进劳动力流动,让低效率部门劳动力充分向高效率部门流动,从而激发劳动者的生产积极性,促进劳动生产率增长。因此,理论上两部门结构性效率差异模型分析了高效率部门和低效率部门之间劳动力流动对于激发劳动者积极性、提升劳动生产率的影响。在此基础上,使用1978-2017年城乡结构、产业结构、所有制结构、区域结构等年度时间序列数据,分析各自对于劳动生产率变动的影响。计量结果表明,在各种结构性变动因素影响劳动生产率的作用中,按照大小顺序依次是城市化、区域经济适度均衡并允许有条件区域加快发展、市场化和产业结构优化。因此,要通过有效促进城镇化、发达区域经济适度领先发展、市场化和产业结构高度化,来提高劳动生产率。     

多党合作和政治协商制度与先进生产力的发展要求

中国共产党领导的多党合作和政治协商制度是我国社会基本矛盾运动的必然结果,是解放和发展社会生产力的必然要求.它符合社会主义初级阶段的国情,适应我国现有生产力的发展水平,与我国的基本经济制度相统一,是实现中华民族伟大复兴的政党制度.     

"三个代表"的科学内涵及时代价值--学习江泽民同志"七一"重要讲话的体会

中国共产党在新世纪面临国际、国内、党内深刻变化的三大考验。“三个代表”的核心是在新的形势下保持党的先进性问题,而只有保持先进性才能长期执政,长期执政才能保证中国的社会主义前途。在充满希望和挑战的21世纪,“三个代表”科学地回答了“建设一个什么样的党和怎样建设党”这样一个新的重大历史课题,是新时期党的建设的伟大纲领。     

The regional politics of scale: revisiting the functional aspects of the labour market dualism

This article seeks to revisit Arthur Lewis’s theory of labour market dualism, while focusing on human resource development in the form of labour productivity, to explain its usefulness in the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) contemporary policy discourses around non-economic integration in an era that is now classified as the Caribbean Educational Policy Space. The focus is on how key assumptions around labour productivity, and the lessons that can be deduced from analysing historical and contemporary policy initiatives, present plausible applicability to an expanding Caribbean single market and the proposed creation of the Caribbean single economy. In focusing on the discursive elements of labour productivity, it is contextualized that the free movement of skilled labour within CARICOM illustrates labour market dualism.     

逻辑起点·必要条件·动态过程:人的全面发展的三维解读

寻求马克思主义"人的全面发展"理论与当代中国"人的发展"问题的契合,必须从"现实的个人""生产力的发展""人的发展的过程分析"三个方面对人的全面发展问题进行拓展研究。     

我国文化大发展大繁荣的历史机遇与挑战

21世纪,文化的重要性越来越凸显出来,国家的竞争归根结底是文化的竞争,文化也是综合国力中最重要、最为活跃的要素之一。改革开放以来党的一系列文化建设战略部署,尤其是十八大关于建设社会主义文化强国的论述,为我国的文化发展指明了方向。面对历史的机遇与挑战,我们必须清醒地认识到:推动我国文化大发展大繁荣刻不容缓,是我们实现中华民族的伟大复兴梦想的必由之路。     

解放思想就是解放生产力

三十年改革开放历史的实质内容就是解放思想、解放生产力。三十年的历史，解放思想是先导，改革开放是动力，解放生产力和发展生产力是总的要求，在此基础上，形成和发展了中国特色社会主义。     

"三个代表"重要思想中的正义观

"三个代表"重要思想蕴含丰富的正义理论先进的生产力和与之相适应的生产关系和上层建筑的统一是"三个代表"正义观的社会基础;先进的文化是"三个代表"正义观的精神载体;实现人的自由全面发展是"三个代表"正义观的伦理实质.