Philosophy 2074F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Working Poor, Labour Power, For Marx

• School: Western University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: Philosophy 2074F/G
• Professor: Rodney Parker

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Karl marx & john rawls, a theory of justice lecture 10. The functioning of industry and society in general relies in large part on unskilled labour. The reliance on unskilled labour increases with the division of labour and the advancement of technology. It is vital to survival, but we hardly value it at all in the capitalist system. Marx argues that the division of labour in an industrialized society leads to these negative consequences. For marx, these empirical facts are the result of inherent features of free-market capitalism and capitalist ideology - Marx recognized that the newly emerging industrial working class was quickly becoming the working poor (cid:455)ou ha(cid:448)e a full ti(cid:373)e jo(cid:271) (cid:271)ut (cid:455)ou are(cid:374)"t (cid:373)aki(cid:374)g e(cid:374)ough (cid:373)o(cid:374)e(cid:455) to e(cid:374)jo(cid:455) the (cid:271)e(cid:374)efits. He (cid:449)as (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)er(cid:374)ed (cid:271)(cid:455) the fa(cid:272)t that the (cid:449)orki(cid:374)g (cid:272)lass (cid:862)(cid:271)ears all the (cid:271)urde(cid:374) of so(cid:272)iet(cid:455) (cid:449)ithout e(cid:374)jo(cid:455)i(cid:374)g a(cid:374)(cid:455) of its ad(cid:448)a(cid:374)tages. (cid:863) Marx believed that industrialism has led to the alienation of workers from their labour.