J writes: The issue is to understand the development of the > social and technical division of labour, in which employers aim to maximize > productive labour creating the added value that can be turned into profit, > and minimize the unproductive labour that remains a necessary cost. This is > really the core of the "productivity" stakes.
So, what is 'unproductive labour' which employers are attempting to minimize? Housework? Independent tailoring, prostitution and other sole traders? Those people would be engaged in unproductive labour as I understand what Marx is putting forward. Are you adding some workers employed as wage labourers to this 'unproductive' category? Mike B) > > > This process of maximizing productive labour and minimizing unproductive > labour is a process riddled with contradictory imperatives, which occurs > within a process of competition pitting capitalists against capitalists, > capitalists against workers, and workers against other workers. It is not a > smooth economic process or a technical process, but a political process and > a cultural process as much as anything. In addition, the state mediates > that > competition, and therefore becomes a competitor in its own right as well. > To > a very considerable extent, the process is also determined by technological > developments. ........etc. > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
