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Author:   Rodrigo Finkelstein
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   216/17
Weight:   0.538kg
ISBN:  

9789004507111

ISBN 10:   9004507116
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   14 April 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables 1 Overview 1 Introduction 2 My Encounter with Injury Rates 3 Injury Rates as a Collection of Inductive Indicators 4 How to Approach Injury Rates 5 Theoretical Contribution 6 Outline of the Successive Chapters 2 Preconditions 1 Introduction 2 First Precondition: Wage Labour 3 Second Precondition: The Conflict between the Forces of Production and the Relations of Production 4 Third Precondition: A Burgeoning Capitalist Class 5 Fourth Precondition: Statistics and Probability 6 Fifth Precondition: Money 7 Sixth Precondition: A Capitalist State 3 Insurance Boards The Landlords of the Circuit of Metamorphosis of Lost Labour Power 1 Introduction 2 Insurance Boards as Part of the Information Sector 2.1 Risk as Expected Lost Labour Power 2.2 Risk as Information 2.2.1 Risk as Class Information 2.2.2 Risk as Lost-Time Injury Rates 2.2.3 Risk as an Informational Medium of Measurement and Monetization 2.2.4 Risk as an Informational Medium of Exchange 3 The Informational Landlords of the Circuit of Metamorphosis of Lost Labour Power 3.1 Stages of the Circuit of Metamorphosis of Lost Labour Power 3.1.1 The First Stage: C - M 3.1.2 The Second Stage: M - I 3.1.3 The Third Stage: I - MW 4 The Lost-Labour-Power Commodity 1 Introduction 2 The Commodity 3 The Information Commodity 4 The Lost-Labour-Power Commodity 4.1 The Satisfaction of Needs as a Means of Production 4.2 Use Value 4.3 Exchange Value 4.4 Value 4.5 Value and Lost Value: The Transformation of Non-Equivalents 5 The Commodification of Lost Labour Power 5.1 The Working-Day-Lost Moment 5.2 The Reporting Moment 5.3 The Recording Moment 5.4 The Processing Moment 5.5 The Programing Moment 5 The Fetishism of the Lost-Labour-Power Commodity 1 Introduction 2 Fetishism and Lost Labour Power 3 The Fetishism of the Lost-Labour-Power Commodity 4 The Value Fluctuation of the Commodity 4.1 Procedurally Hidden Social Relations 4.1.1 Value Fluctuation due to a Movement of Working Days Lost 4.1.2 Value Fluctuation Due To A Movement Of Reported Injury Claims 4.1.3 Value Fluctuation due to a Movement of Deeming Injury Claims 4.1.4 Value Fluctuation due to a Movement of Rate-Setting Mechanics 4.2 Structurally Hidden Social Relations 4.2.1 Value Fluctuation due to a Movement of the Wage-Labour Market 4.2.2 Value Fluctuation due to a Movement of the Economic Activity 4.2.3 Value Fluctuation due to a Movement of Cost-Shifting 5 The Relative Value and Price Fluctuation of the Commodity 5.1 Class-Hidden Social Relations 5.1.1 Relative Value and Price Fluctuation due to a Movement of Misreporting and Underreporting Injury Claims 5.1.2 Relative Value and Price Fluctuation due to a Movement of Appealing Legitimate Claims 5.1.3 Relative Value and Price Fluctuation due to a Movement of Managed Care 5.1.4 Relative Value and Price Fluctuation due to a Movement of Early-Return-to-Work Practices 5.1.4 Relative Value and Price Fluctuation due to a Movement of Vocational Rehabilitation Interventions 6 Lessons from the Social Totality 1 Introduction 2 Understanding Lost-Time Injury Rates as a Historical Socioeconomic Formation 2.1 Lost-Time Injury Rates as a Class Relation of Exchange and Distribution 2.2 Lost-Time Injury Rates Belong to Capital 2.3 The Value Forms of Lost Labour Power 2.4 The Lost-Labour-Power Commodity Is Not the Bearer of Lost Value 2.5 Lost-Time Injury Rates Do Not Provide Accurate Information 2.6 Lost-Time Injury Rates as a Structural Epistemological Ideology 3 Coda: The Solidification between Oppressor and Oppressed References Index

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Rodrigo Finkelstein Ph.D. (2022), Simon Fraser University, is an independant scholar. He is author of several articles on labour health, including Riesgos laborales: una vision cultural [Labour Risks: A Cultural View] (Editorial Universitaria, 2018).

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