Multi-dimensional decommodification: a reply to Graham Room
Replies to Graham Room's (2000) critique by examining Room's positive contributions to the study of decommodification. Although Esping-Andersen supports many of Room's views, including Room's theory that decommodification should be extended into the realm of working life, Esping-...
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| Published in | Policy and politics Vol. 28; no. 3; pp. 353 - 359 |
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01.07.2000
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| Abstract | Replies to Graham Room's (2000) critique by examining Room's positive contributions to the study of decommodification. Although Esping-Andersen supports many of Room's views, including Room's theory that decommodification should be extended into the realm of working life, Esping-Andersen does not support Room's commodity status of labor theory. In particular, Esping-Andersen disagrees with Room's contention that the commodity status of labor is determined by self-realization in one's working life. Esping-Andersen also finds fault with Room's belief that Room himself should be credited with adding a new dimension to the study of decommodification. Loose hypotheses are offered with respect to the study of decommodification. These hypotheses are based on the attitudes of Swedish women toward their working lives, the dependencies that stem from familialism, & the varying job rights that are built into employment relationships throughout the world. A call is made for further research on the subject of decommodification as consumption at the point of production. 19 References. K. A. Larsen |
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| AbstractList | To a welfare state researcher, like myself, decommodification signals a citizen’s relative independence from pure market forces; it captures one important dimension of freedom and constraint in the everyday life of advanced capitalism. From the title of Graham Room’s article it would appear that his primary aim is to critique this admittedly narrow specification of the concept. This is not only unduly modest but also misleading because, in reality, his real aim is not exegetic debate but, instead, creative research. Room’s article seeks to enlarge the empirical study of decommodification in two directions: one, to examine it as an attribute of the life course and, two, to include an added working-life dimension. Room is clearly more faithful to our Marxist forebears than am I, and so he insists that the process of human commodification that Marx and, later, Karl Polanyi associated with capitalism involves more than access to consumption(decommodification for consumption, in Room’s terminology). Following the tenets of classical Marxism, the key to people’s capacity for self-realisation (self-development, in Roomian terminology) lies in work. Hence, we must shift our attention back to the ‘point of production’. I am in basic agreement with the effort to make the concept more dynamic and multidimensional. I am less convinced that the ‘self-development’ approach that Room proposes is the right way to go. First, the spheres of consumption and self-development are not as distinct as Room suggests. Second, the ‘point of production’ encompasses in its own right both consumption and work self-realisation. Rather than quibble with Room’s criticisms of my work, most of which I agree with in any case, I prefer to devote most of my reflections to his positive contribution. I begin with the consumption–self-development distinction. Replies to Graham Room's (2000) critique by examining Room's positive contributions to the study of decommodification. Although Esping-Andersen supports many of Room's views, including Room's theory that decommodification should be extended into the realm of working life, Esping-Andersen does not support Room's commodity status of labor theory. In particular, Esping-Andersen disagrees with Room's contention that the commodity status of labor is determined by self-realization in one's working life. Esping-Andersen also finds fault with Room's belief that Room himself should be credited with adding a new dimension to the study of decommodification. Loose hypotheses are offered with respect to the study of decommodification. These hypotheses are based on the attitudes of Swedish women toward their working lives, the dependencies that stem from familialism, & the varying job rights that are built into employment relationships throughout the world. A call is made for further research on the subject of decommodification as consumption at the point of production. 19 References. K. A. Larsen |
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