Wage-Labor and Capital — What Wages Conceal About Value and Power
A wage records the price paid for labor-power. It does not by itself reveal who owns the product, controls production, or retains the value created through the working day.
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Using Wage-Labor and Capital by Karl Marx as its lens, this investigation examines the relationship between wage labor and productive capital. Marx argues that workers sell their labor-power—their capacity to work for a defined period—rather than a finished quantity of labor. Frederick Engels’s later revisions make this distinction explicit…
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