[AUT] Productivity

["Tahir Wood" <twood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Now that we have started talking again, it occurs to me that there is a
question that I might get some help with here. I'm doing some research
around the notion of productivity. I'm aware of Harry Cleaver's
treatment of that topic in Reading Capital Politically, but I'm looking
for more stuff. It stems from my interest in Higher Education and the
pressures being put on it by changes in the economy. Some of the things
connected with capitalist productivity that are interesting me are its
relationships with the following issues: 

1. (un)employment
2. urbanisation, and the food supply
3. capitalist competition
4. prices, falling rate of profit, etc.
5. ideological functions (productivity is 'good' etc.)
6. Formal/real subsumption, fordism, post-fordism, etc.
7. a possible non-capitalist notion of productivity (bearing in mind
food supplies to urban masses)
8. general intellect
9. biotechnology, nanotechnology and similar

Readings, ideas are what I'm after, perhaps some discussion here too. 
Tahir

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