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Dead Labor - Toward a Political Economy of Premature Death (Hardcover)
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Dead Labor - Toward a Political Economy of Premature Death (Hardcover)
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A groundbreaking consideration of death from capitalism, from the
seventeenth to the twenty-first century From a 2013 Texas
fertilizer plant explosion that killed fifteen people and injured
252 to a 2017 chemical disaster in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, we
are confronted all too often with industrial accidents that reflect
the underlying attitude of corporations toward the lives of
laborers and others who live and work in their companies’
shadows. Dead Labor takes seriously the myriad ways in which bodies
are commodified and profits derived from premature death. In doing
so it provides a unique perspective on our understanding how life
and death drive the twenty-first-century global economy. James
Tyner tracks a history from the 1600s through which premature death
and mortality became something calculable, predictable, manageable,
and even profitable. Drawing on a range of examples, including the
criminalization of migrant labor, medical tourism, life insurance,
and health care, he explores how today we can no longer presume
that all bodies undergo the same processes of life, death,
fertility, and mortality. He goes on to develop the concept of
shared mortality among vulnerable populations and examines forms of
capital exploitation that have emerged around death and the
reproduction of labor. Positioned at the intersection of two
fields—the political economy of labor and the philosophy of
mortality—Dead Labor builds on Marx’s notion that death (and
truncated life) is a constant factor in the processes of labor.
Considering premature death also as a biopolitical and bioeconomic
concept, Tyner shows how racialized and gendered bodies are exposed
to it in unbalanced ways within capitalism, and how bodies are then
commodified, made surplus and redundant, and even disassembled in
order to accumulate capital.
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