Exploitation via labour power in Marx |
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Authors: | Henry Laycock |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Philosophy, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, K7L 3N6 |
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Abstract: | Marx's account of capitalist exploitation is undermined by inter-related confusions surrounding the notion of labour power. These confusions relate to [i] what labour power is, [ii] what happens to labour power in the labour market, and [iii] what the epistemic status of labour power is (the issue of appearance and reality). The central theses of the paper are [a] that property ownership is the wrong model for understanding the exploitation of labour, and [b] that the concept of exploitation is linked more fruitfully to a conception of distributive injustice than to Marx's theory of surplus value. |
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Keywords: | appearance and reality capitalism commodities employers and employees exploitation G.A. Cohen labour power ownership property rights slavery |
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