Beware the Fallacy of Productivity Reductionism Andrew M. Fischer

While raising productivity in the Global South is obviously an important component of poverty alleviation and efforts to reduce inequality, it is equally imperative to recognise the underlying fallacy of productivity reductionism because, otherwise, an obsession with raising productivity risks being turned into a powerful ethos for disciplining an increasingly Southern global workforce together with nationally based productive capitalists.

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