Abstract

MARTINEZ GONZALEZ, Blanca Gloria. Plusvalor, ingreso de trabajadores autónomos y diferencias nacionales de tasas de plusvalor. Prob. Des [online]. 2005, vol.36, n.142, pp.101-125. ISSN 0301-7036.

Countries with lower productivity have rates of surplus value that are higher than those with greater productivity. This result seems to contradict the need for accumulation: countries with higher productivity are like that because they have greater average organic composition and precisely for that reason a higher rate of surplus value to compensate for their elevated organic composition of capital. In this article we examine what several writers have used in their estimates of the rate of surplus value, i.e. the incomes of autonomous workers. Using Mexico as a case study, it is shown how their estimates of surplus value can be modified and their conclusions on differences in the rate of surplus value between countries with significant differences in productivity. Some of the theoretical complications of the analysis are presented on the relation between autonomous labor and the rate of surplus value.

Keywords : rate of surplus value; autonomous work; productivity; value; international comparison.

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