SOCB42H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Labour Power, Dialectic, Feudalism
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Historically specific form of organisation of production, contingent on the stage of development of means of production. Forces of production: allow humans to transform nature in order to produce means of subsistence: means of production + labour. Means of subsistence is everything you need to survive. Means of production: raw materials, building, tools, all the physical objects needed to transform natural material into something that you need. Labour power is everything that you know how to do. Marx says your employer has a right to your labour not your labour power. All the necessary tasks needed to complete the task is labour. Relationships of production: social relationships into which humans enter in the process of production, distribution, exchange and consumption. Ownership over means of production is the most important, but not the only relationship of production---the most important : it determines who has power over the organization; who controls the mode of production.
