SOSC 1340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Adding Machine, Social Relation, Profit Maximization

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1340
• Professor: John Simoulidis

Document Summary

There are 2 divisions of labour: within society and within a workshop. A social division of labour a universal condition of any society is distinct from the manufacturing (or detail) division of labour that arises under capitalism. The capitalist organization of production exhibits a tendency towards deskilling labour", which 1. increases the control of the labour process by capitalists; 2. reduces wages; and: limits human development. Recall marx"s critique of smith: the pin factory illustration abstracts from class relations of production", the relation between a capitalist and wage labourer. Workers sell the commodity they own labour power for a wage, in exchange for the use of their labour for a specific period of time. Capitalists buy labour power but use labour in production. Within the capitalist mode of production the social division of labour is subject to the anarchy of the market while the detail division subject to planning within the factory where the capitalist appropriates" the output (including surplus)