Abstract labour and concrete labour refer to a distinction made by Karl Marx in his critique of political economy. It refers to the difference between...

kinds of labour contracts which are possible. Abstract labour and concrete labour Compensation of employees Reserve army of labour Surplus labour Surplus...

core. Philosophy portal Abstract art Abstract and concrete Abstract interpretation Abstract labour and concrete labour Abstract structure Abstraction (sociology)...

equalize the conditions of production and sales in different parts of the world. Abstract labour and concrete labour Capital accumulation Capitalist mode...

process affixes labour time to a commodity, and providing the commodity functions as such the quantity of labour time is immaterial—an abstract unknown, so...

of concrete labour, qualitatively defined labour. Capitalists are able to purchase labour power from the workers, who can only bring their own labour power...

The division of labour is the separation of the tasks in any economic system or organisation so that participants may specialise (specialisation). Individuals...

the products of that labor, and labor itself becomes a tradeable abstract value (see Abstract labour and concrete labour). The result of the difficulties...

opposes the labour movement's fight to expand wage labour rather than abolish or at least limit it. According to Lafargue, wage labour is tantamount...

abstract labour, do something else. He argues that from the Marxist stand-point of “two-fold nature of labour” or abstract labour and concrete labour...