Entre extraction et exploitation : des mutations en cours dans l'organisation de la coopération sociale

The aim of the article is to revise the notion of exploitation, within the framework of a larger research project on contemporary capitalism which foregrounds the relevance of an « extractive » logic in shaping the operations of capital in such strategic fields as logistics and finance. Taking as its common thread the analysis of contemporary social struggles, the authors examine the gaps, tensions and frictions between social cooperation and the actual embodied and grounded experience of living labour, here foregrounded as the privileged standpoint from which to rethink exploitation. Questions relative to exploitation, in its relations to dispossession, power and to domination, are addressed by way of the Marxist analysis of the notions of exploitation and cooperation. The article ends with a more political argument, focused on the possibility and limits of a (« reformist ») project for the « normalization » of exploitation and the question of a class politics today.