LAWS 4304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Productive And Unproductive Labour, Commodification

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Law
• Course: LAWS 4304
• Professor: George Rigakos

Document Summary

Economic determinations drive change (i. e. in structure of policing) Commodity: something that can be bought & sold; goods & services; accumulation of unpaid labor. If it"s (cid:374)ot (cid:448)e(cid:374)di(cid:271)le, it"s (cid:374)ot (cid:449)o(cid:396)th a(cid:374)(cid:455)thing: vendible products for exchange, wealth of nation is nothing more than amount of commodities that nation has, vendible = privileged form of commodity. Smith (for capitalism) and marx (critique of capitalism) capitalism ought to be in pursuit of production of vendible products for exchange. Ideally, commodity (under capitalism): material, vendible, made by productive labor (i. e. so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e"s (cid:373)aki(cid:374)g su(cid:396)plus exploitation) factory is ideal: e. g. f(cid:396)o(cid:373) (cid:272)apitalist pe(cid:396)spe(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e, ja(cid:374)ito(cid:396)s a(cid:396)e (cid:862)u(cid:374)p(cid:396)odu(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e(cid:863) Commodification: making the creation of things productive by extension, the making of productive labor: abstract process w/ real effects. If (cid:455)ou do(cid:374)"t e(cid:454)ploit, the (cid:272)apitalist system falls need for police; insecurity inherent in stuff. Market exists before and after capitalism just in different form. E. g. feeling of star wars captured by selling merchandise.