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  1. Labour and Value: Rethinking Marx’s Theory of Exploitation
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Labour and Value: Rethinking Marx’s Theory of Exploitation
More info and resources at: https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0182

Contents

Acknowledgments

1

Introduction

3

1.

Abstract Labour as a Natural Substance

15

1.1

The Double Abstraction

17

1.2

Labour as a Natural Abstraction

20

1.3

Value Form and Substance

23

1.4

Abstract Labour as a Productive Force

26

2.

Abstract Labour as a Historical Reality

31

2.1

The Labour Exchange: From Hegel to Marx

32

2.2

The Subsumption and Subordination of Labour

34

2.3

Abstract Labour as Resulting from a Social Relation

40

3.

Labour Subsumption and Exploitation

45

3.1

The Production of Absolute Surplus Value

48

3.2

The Production of Relative Surplus Value

53

3.3

Wage Dynamics

57

4.

Values and Prices

63

4.1

Labour Values

65

4.2

Production Prices

67

4.3

The Transformation Problem

70

5.

Measures of Exploitation

75

5.1

Two Paradoxes

76

5.2

A Single System Approach

80

5.3

Back to the Real World

85

Conclusions: Rethinking Exploitation

89

Appendix 1. Reproduction Conditions

101

Appendix 2. Advanced or Postponed Wage Payments?

105

References

111

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