Productive and Unproductive Labor in the Labor Theory of Value

Simon Mohun

Review of Radical Political Economics, 1996, vol. 28, issue 4, 30-54

Abstract: Using a particular understanding of the labor theory of value, this paper surveys the criticisms made of the Marxian distinction between productive and unproductive labor, and rejects them as misconceived. The distinction is then used to draw some consequences for how "the rate of exploitation" should be understood.

Date: 1996
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