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	Productivism
		Productivism is the (purported) ideology that measurable economic productivity[?] and growth is the purpose of human organization and perhaps the purpose of life itself.
		According to those who use the term 'productivism', the difference between themselves and the promoters of conventional neoclassical economics is that a productivist does not and cannot believe in the idea of "uneconomic growth", i.e.
		The key academic critic of productivism is probably Amartya Sen, winner of the 1999 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pr/Productivism.html (475 words)

	Mary Nolan
		The primary variance is in terms of political goals productivism is supposed to serve.
		But productivism has been committed to avoiding or transcending politics - prefer the clarity of science to the ambiguity and messiness of politics and debate.
		Productivism central to ideas of rationalization - a rallying term that emerged in Weimar Germany.
	www.drury.edu /ess/Technology/mnolan.htm (775 words)

	Productivism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Productivism is the (purported) ideology that measurable economic productivity and growth is the purpose of human organization and perhaps the purpose of life itself.
		Critics of the idea of 'productivism' claim that it is up to the electorate, worker and purchaser to put values on their free time and decide whether to convert time or money to production or to consumption.
		According to those who use the term 'productivism', the difference between themselves and the promoters of conventional neoclassical economics is that a productivist does not and cannot believe in the idea of "uneconomic growth", i.e.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Productivism (484 words)

	Den jyske Historiker - Nr 102-103 - Abstract af 7. artikel
		The first notions of productivism in Danish economic and political thought have to be sought among the economists in the twenties.
		Productivism and Fordism promised economic growth and prosperity for all, but workers and employers contentiously accused each other of enriching one side on account of the other.
		There was a movement towards consensus about productivism in the late twenties, and productivism was adopted in the party program of the Social Democracy in 1927.
	www.denjyskehistoriker.dk /nr102/abstract_7.htm (250 words)

	Domingo Cavallo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		If productivism is to be understood as a policy which greatly boosts productivity, what Argentina has seen over the past year 2002 cannot be regarded as such.
		If the definition of “productivism” is restricted to this latter meaning, the answer to the question could be partially affirmative, but then it would imply permanent stagnation.
		Eduardo Duhalde’s administration will certainly depend on the media and their support, in so far as they continue to underline the recovery symptoms of “productivist policies” and to stress that the income and wages earned while the convertibility law was in effect were but an illusion.
	www.cavallo.com.ar /Weeklyopinion/Productivism.html (1000 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		However, he was one of the first to denounce damages from the green revolution ("Révolution Verte") and to fight agricultural productivism.
		Ahead of his time, the most famous French agronomist, well-known for his red-pullover, surprised French people by showing on TV an apple and a glass of water, telling them how precious these resources were, and predicting the future price of oil.
		Dumont was one of the first to explain the consequences of what was to be called globalization, demographic explosion, productivism, pollution, shantytowns, malnutrition, rift between northern and southern countries.
	www.online-encyclopedia.info /encyclopedia/r/re/rene_dumont.html (559 words)

	Productivism -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		Productivism is the (purported) ideology that measurable economic productivity and ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level) growth is the purpose of human organization and perhaps the purpose of life itself.
		These views are often dismissed as 'utopian' by economists and political scientists, who often insist that there is no conflict between the role of the worker and of the citizen, father or mother.
		This reflects the accusation that productivism devalues (The diversity of plant and animal life in a particular habitat (or in the world as a whole)) biodiversity, (Click link for more info and facts about natural capital) natural capital and the experience of life itself.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pr/productivism.htm (434 words)

	Gulli: "Praxis and the Danger: The Insurgent Ontology of Antonio Gramsci"
		However, if living labor accepts to get rid of its aspiration to the totality, as some writers who fear the "essentialism of the totality" suggest,7 then it will also have to accept the continuous domination of capital and be content with remaining what capital is not, whether at capital's center or periphery.
		In the logic of productivism, the superstructure (i.e., human will and subjectivity) is completely absorbed and lost in the structure, politics and culture are reduced to the economic sphere, creation disappears in mere production.
		Her ambivalence in relation to Marx depends on the fact that a critique of labor such as the one she presents is forced to see labor in the light of productivism only, for it wants to deny its univocity and ontological power.
	eserver.org /clogic/2002/gulli.html (11013 words)

	Knappster
		Read about these topics from a few excellent authors:
		Myths of abundance die hard in a culture of productivism.
		Meanwhile, the "card-carrying" electoralists of the Green Party call for "revolution" as the remedy.
	www.knappster.org (153 words)

	The Business of Genocide: The SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration Camps
		Productivism caused the WVHA to pursue a variety of utopian schemes, all of which relied on concentration camp inmates for labor input and most of which had murderous consequences for the prisoners.
		The concept of SS anti-capitalist productivism, while certainly articulated with great energy by the managers of the WVHA, was by no means unique to them.
		Rather, it was representative of broad currents in Nazi (and non-Nazi) socioeconomic thought in general, and as such has received attention from historians such as Avraham Barkai, Karl-Heinz Ludwig, and others.
	www.eh.net /bookreviews/library/0598.shtml (1523 words)

	Bloomsbury.com - Research centre
		He returned to Russia in 1920, when revolutionary Productivism was in the ascendant.
		In contradiction to the prevailing anti-aesthetic tendencies of Russian art, he and his brother produced the Realistic Manifesto, claiming the aesthetic value of art and implicitly attacking the Productivism of Tatlin and his followers.
		To Gabo, the term 'realism' indicated the 'real' significance of works of art, which he felt were things of beauty and importance in themselves, rather than for what they signified.
	www.bloomsburymagazine.com /ARC/detail.asp?entryid=99090&bid=1 (305 words)

	Consumerism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		The older term "conspicuous consumption" spread to describe this in the United States in the 1960s, but was soon linked to larger debates about media theory[?], culture jamming, and its corollary productivism.
		Gandhi's ideal of voluntary simplicity was seen as an alternative to consumerism, and movements towards Green anarchism and eco-anarchism often focused on rejecting consumer products as such, rather than the means by which they were made (the usual focus of moral purchasing efforts or the Green parties).
		See also: productivism, culture jamming, moral purchasing, measuring well-being, commodity markets.
	www.city-search.org /co/consumerism.html (882 words)

	Interview: David Harvey, “The Politics of Social Justice” (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		The first part of the interview deals with discourses surrounding the definition of the environment as an object of political struggle and academic inquiry and touches on how notions of the individual are mobilized, consciously or unconsciously, in those discourses.
		As productivism developed in some aspects of the Marxist tradition, it basically said that we can use the world around us in any way we want and there are no barriers.
		But what I’m driving back to is to say yes, there may be some problems with such thought and that production should be looked at as all forms of transformative activities which occur, whether they occur in the domestic sphere or in a more public arena like the workplace.
	www.uky.edu /ArtsSciences/SocTheo/DisClosure/Harveydi.htm (6831 words)

	Organise! - Issue 43 - ASPECTS
		Anarchist and libertarian communist thinkers in the early days of the revolutionary working class movement, in their criticism of the 'modern' industrial system and its tendency to transform the worker into a part of the machinery, can be seen as proto-greens.
		Often the working class are identified with the 'culture of industry' and, understandably, the notion of class solidarity is easily lost on, for example, road protesters (often unemployed) whose regular contact with their class brothers and sisters is in the form of £2.50 an hour rent-a-cop security guards!
		The anarchist movement itself has been forced to take on board explicitly green politics, has had to confront the issue of productivism and has had to seriously discuss the nature of technology.
	flag.blackened.net /af/org/issue43/asp.html (1097 words)

	Rural Geography Research Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		Much previous study of British agriculture has been qualitative in nature, whereas this study aims to quantify specific changes at farm scale.
		Much debate during the last two decades has centred on the concept of “productivism” and beyond, whilst little attention has been paid to the pre-productivist era.
		By identifying specific changes over time, a clear transition into “productivism” and beyond may be defined, and a pre-productivist baseline may be established against which to measure future changes.
	www.geog.plym.ac.uk /ruralgeography/postgrad/taylork.htm (328 words)

	French Revolutionary Syndicalism and the Public Sphere - Cambridge University Press
		Kenneth Tucker examines the triumph of this productivism and instrumental rationality, in contrast with other visions of society and the future.
		He gives a Habermasian twist to the recent linguistic turn in labor history, focusing on the role of competing bodies of knowledge in influencing the self-understanding and strategies of the CGT.
		He also goes further to situate the rise of productivism within the social and cultural context of the French Third Republic.
	www.cambridge.org /uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521563593 (275 words)

	[A-List] Notes on Marx's Theory of Productivism in the Grundrisse. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		[A-List] Notes on Marx's Theory of Productivism in the Grundrisse.
		As someone who has read only part of Grundrisse, it is helpful to have an overview.
		At 15/12/02 09:11 +0000, you wrote: >Notes on Marx's Theory of Productivism in the Grundrisse.
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2002-December/022364.html (271 words)

	nav (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		It is in this context that we shall now take a closer look at productivism as a driving force while studying its effects on the lives and livelihoods of the poor.
		The reason lies partly in the inner logic of productivism as an economic system itself: meeting its “side-effects” requires public spending and that in turn means a need for even more economic growth.
		But it also has to do with the usual conceptualization of poverty in policy circles as a macroeconomic phenomenon, to be measured by the number of people — or even the proportion of that number in relation to the whole population — living on less than one US dollar Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) per day.
	www.svneurope.com /countries/items.php?item_id=179&type_id=9&wherefrom=archief (10637 words)

	Marx, Sahlins, and Ethnocentrism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		Marx's productivism, has also been criticized along these lines.
		The term ""productivism"" entails the claim that material and economic conditions, or the forces and relations of production, predominate in determining all aspects of a sociocultural world.
		Critics argue that the productivist claim is true, at best, only for modern societies.
	www.nd.edu /~remarx/prototype/rm/contents/v6/i3/p0079.html (191 words)

	john heartfield : biography
		Regardless, the medium of photomontage continued to develop, along with Heartfield's work.
		In addition to his teachers and Dada contemporaries, Heartfield was influenced by a Soviet movement called Productivism, or "production art", which in turn was closely related to Constructivism.
		Heartfield travelled to the Soviet Union, where Boris Arvatov, one of Productivism's main theoreticians, introduced him to to artists Rodchenko and Lissitzky.
	www.lineargirl.com /heartfield/biography3.html (134 words)

	M-TH: Angela and Dave on productivism and USSR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		M-TH: Angela and Dave on productivism and USSR
		Previous message: M-TH: Angela and Dave on productivism and USSR
		But does angela have a position on Marx's view that only when the socialist mode of production surpasses capitalism in productivity and efficiency etc will it be home free from any risk of undermining from the Law of Value or even its return?
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/marxism-thaxis/1998-October/011724.html (165 words)

	IngentaConnect Making the French Unemployed Work, 1930-1936
		What may be termed productivism – the belief in work as a necessary, if not desirable, social discipline – has influenced historians of the unemployed.
		In the 1930s the movement of chômeurs and some individual unemployed fought against productivism and struggled for higher wages and guaranteed incomes.
		These unemployed persons became the heirs of the moral economy and thereby challenged fundamental values and practices without which – according to businessmen, mayors, and many politicians capitalism could not function dynamically.
	www.ingentaconnect.com /content/oup/french/2004/00000018/00000002/art00196 (227 words)

	[Culture_aglist] FW: POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS - closing date 30 June 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		The background to this research is an analysis of the situation current in Australian agriculture.
		Briefly, productivism is still prominent in Australia and farmers are driven to increase production as a result of the cost-price squeeze they experience.
		The research would be undertaken as part of a team consisting of Professor Chris Cocklin, Dr Jacqui Dibden and Dr Vaughan Higgins and in conjunction with current MRAP projects on related topics, notably 'From Productivism to Multifunctionality?' and 'Environmental Management Systems on Australian Farms'.
	colfa.utsa.edu /pipermail/culture_aglist/2005-May/000278.html (742 words)

	Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome - SourceWatch
		Bush did after September 11, 2001, have chosen to encourage consumerism itself, as if consumption led to healthy economic growth, and engage in the 'spin' themselves as 'boosters' for their jurisdiction.
		More subtly, productivism plays a role in spreading such plagues in urban areas, as people feel compelled to go to work even if sick.
		Perhaps this "work ethic", loyalty to one's professional and bureaucratic establishment, "economic sense" and "competitiveness" trump all public health concerns to North American leaders.
	sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=SARS (1582 words)

	H-Net Review: L. M. Stallbaumer-Beishline on The Business of Genocide: The SS, Slave Labor, ...
		Rather, he argues they were committed to the leadership principle of "productivism," modernization, racial supremacy, and the goal of creating an SS "New Order" throughout Europe.
		Allen's study focuses on activities of the WVHA, which was formed out of a desire by Himmler to introduce modern, managerial practices to the financial administration and economic enterprises of the SS.
		Himmler's interests in the economy reflected his goal to bring the SS worldview into private industry and to create a new economic order founded on productivism and German racial supremacy.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=236351058984838 (2604 words)

	Re: productivism vs. productivity
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	www.mail-archive.com /futurework@scribe.uwaterloo.ca/msg00187.html (262 words)

	Making the French Unemployed Work, 1930-1936 -- Seidman 18 (2): 196 -- French History
		What may be termed productivism – the belief in work as
		productivism and struggled for higher wages and guaranteed incomes.
		These unemployed persons became the heirs of the moral economy
	fh.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/abstract/18/2/196 (188 words)

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