The Configuration of Work in the XXI Century: The Market Eloy Salmon and Molecular Movements of the Capital
The vendors of the street Eloy Salmon, located on the city La Paz, Bolivia, have been perceived as practicing an “informal” economy, excluded from the circuits of global capital accumulation and associated with poverty and low salaries. The history of these Bolivian vendors has been characterized by...
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| description | The vendors of the street Eloy Salmon, located on the city La Paz, Bolivia, have been perceived as practicing an “informal” economy, excluded from the circuits of global capital accumulation and associated with poverty and low salaries. The history of these Bolivian vendors has been characterized by processes of exclusion and marginalization from the official economy and Bolivia’s state apparatus since its establishment in 1952. We propose – using the concept of David Harvey – that the vendors of Eloy Salmon are part of the molecular movements of the capital. This can be explained by observing that in their existing organization they have their own institutional forms, internal codes of exchange, and cultural practices that allow there to be social and local attachments, as well as the fostering of relationships with global capitalism, which creates “resistance” to the State. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d97c48f17e454e4c82d7110463484f032025-02-02T21:16:54ZspaFacultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede EcuadorÍconos1390-12492224-69832018-09-0122628710410.17141/iconos.62.2018.3244The Configuration of Work in the XXI Century: The Market Eloy Salmon and Molecular Movements of the CapitalMaría Luisa López Guerrero0Universidad Iberoamericana, MéxicoThe vendors of the street Eloy Salmon, located on the city La Paz, Bolivia, have been perceived as practicing an “informal” economy, excluded from the circuits of global capital accumulation and associated with poverty and low salaries. The history of these Bolivian vendors has been characterized by processes of exclusion and marginalization from the official economy and Bolivia’s state apparatus since its establishment in 1952. We propose – using the concept of David Harvey – that the vendors of Eloy Salmon are part of the molecular movements of the capital. This can be explained by observing that in their existing organization they have their own institutional forms, internal codes of exchange, and cultural practices that allow there to be social and local attachments, as well as the fostering of relationships with global capitalism, which creates “resistance” to the State.http://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/iconos/article/view/3244Informal economypopular economymolecular movements of capitalvendorsBoliviaglobal capitalism |
| spellingShingle | María Luisa López Guerrero The Configuration of Work in the XXI Century: The Market Eloy Salmon and Molecular Movements of the Capital Íconos Informal economy popular economy molecular movements of capital vendors Bolivia global capitalism |
| title | The Configuration of Work in the XXI Century: The Market Eloy Salmon and Molecular Movements of the Capital |
| title_full | The Configuration of Work in the XXI Century: The Market Eloy Salmon and Molecular Movements of the Capital |
| title_fullStr | The Configuration of Work in the XXI Century: The Market Eloy Salmon and Molecular Movements of the Capital |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Configuration of Work in the XXI Century: The Market Eloy Salmon and Molecular Movements of the Capital |
| title_short | The Configuration of Work in the XXI Century: The Market Eloy Salmon and Molecular Movements of the Capital |
| title_sort | configuration of work in the xxi century the market eloy salmon and molecular movements of the capital |
| topic | Informal economy popular economy molecular movements of capital vendors Bolivia global capitalism |
| url | http://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/iconos/article/view/3244 |
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