The One-Sidedness of Wage-Labour

Michael A. Lebowitz
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Michael A. Lebowitz: Simon Fraser University

Chapter 8 in Beyond Capital, 2003, pp 139-160 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract What is this thing we have called wage-labour, about which we have theorized? Clearly, it is that which stands opposite to capital within capitalism. Wage-labour is the necessary mediator for capital in capital’s thrust to grow. The reproduction of capital requires the reproduction of a body of wage-labourers, a mass of human instruments of production who must enter into a relation in which they perform surplus labour for capital. Thus, wage-labour is a necessary moment within the reproduction of capital.

Keywords: Political Economy; Productive Labour; Free Time; Human Relation; Capitalist Production (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1057/9781403943729_8

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