LABRST 1C03 Lecture Notes - Barter, Deskilling
24 Apr 2013
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Productive labour: work for monetary remuneration (wage work, work that produces commodities for exchange rather than for use, modern conception of work. Reproductive labour: work for use, work that sustains daily life, allows us to engage in productive labour, gendered. Use value (production for use: food, cleaning, craft, cooking, for your own use. Exchange value (production for exchange: for money, for barter, for trade, for the use of others. Alienation (product, process, social & self: enlightmenment thinkers believed: Work is a fundamental part of the human experience. Work is the means of self- expression and self development. But under capitalism there is an estrangement or separation of the worker from the spirit of their labour: from product. No relationship with the finished object of production. Production for exchange not use: from process. Lack of control over the process of production. Workers are in completion with other for jobs.
