SOCB30H3 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Wage Labour, Labour Power, Productive Forces
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Week 2 wage, labour, and capital marx & engels. Marx first reported materialist conception of history in 1844 piece german ideology : then turned focus onto economic studies. Although viewpoint stayed the same: he proposed a thesis of alienated labour: where capital- labour relationship is self destructive, and temporary due to nature of dynamics, this point is made in wage, labour, and capital. Presented in 1847, published in 1849 in german newspaper (where marx was editor in chief: labour = a worker selling" his labour to a capitalist. We only address power/capitalist issues when they forcibly show. And yet labour is not seen as part of his life, rather, a. The product of activity is not necessarily the object of sacrifice activity. In other words, the product of one"s work may be that you produce furniture, but really the object(ive) is to make money. Labour is not always paid: free labourer for example (such as slaves)
