Much of contemporary comparative political–economic thinking about global industrial production accepts the following claims (a) that manufacturing is destined to leave rich political economies for lower wage ones;(b) that global industrial production is hierarchically structured with higher value operations concentrated in the rich countries and intermediate component production distributed across increasingly specialized clusters in emerging political economies;(c) that digital technological advance, automation and massive platform firms are ushering in a new historical regime of capitalism that is generating high rates of inequality and threatens to thoroughly degrade work for less educated and less skilled workers all over the globe This article argues that these three arguments are deeply flawed because they present only a partial picture of contemporary global industrial dynamics They exclude from view many concurrent developments that suggest that alternative political and economic practices and trajectories are possible And they downplay the role that politics and struggle have played and can play in the constitution of the political economy By deconstructing these three arguments, this article attempts to recover possibility from the constraints of false necessity in thinking about global industrial production dynamics

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工业的可能性和错误的必要性：重新思考全球经济中的生产，就业和劳动力动态1

当代关于全球工业生产的大多数比较政治政治经济学思想都接受以下主张（a）制造业注定要让富裕的政治经济体转向低​​工资的经济体;（b）全球工业生产是等级结构的，高价值的经营活动集中在富裕国家和中间组件生产分布在新兴政治经济体中日益专业化的集群中；（c）数字技术的进步，自动化和大型平台公司正在迎来一种新的资本主义历史体制，这种体制正在产生高水平的不平等现象，并威胁到彻底降低全球受教育程度较低和技术水平较低的工人的工作。本文认为，这三个论点存在严重缺陷，因为它们仅仅展示了当代全球工业动态的一部分，他们从视野中排除了许多同时发生的事态发展，这些事态发展表明可能存在替代性的政治和经济实践和轨迹，并且他们低估了政治和斗争在政治经济构成中已经发挥并可以发挥的作用通过解构这三个论点，本文试图从思考全球工业生产动态的错误必要性约束中恢复可能性。本文试图从思考全球工业生产动态的错误必要性约束中恢复可能性本文试图从思考全球工业生产动态的错误必要性约束中恢复可能性本文试图从思考全球工业生产动态的错误必要性约束中恢复可能性本文试图从思考全球工业生产动态的错误必要性约束中恢复可能性