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TY - JOUR
T1 - Productive and unproductive labour and social form
T2 - Putting class struggle in its place
AU - Moraitis, Alexis
AU - Copley, Jack
PY - 2017/2/1
Y1 - 2017/2/1
N2 - The categories of productive and unproductive labour have been a source of contention among Marxist scholars since Marx first committed them to paper. This article will offer a critique of both the orthodox and autonomist approaches to this issue, arguing that they constitute transhistorical and analytically inadequate interpretations. In contrast, a social form approach to productive and unproductive labour provides a substantive definition of these categories in relation to the commodity form, and brings class struggle back to the forefront in a theoretically consistent manner.
AB - The categories of productive and unproductive labour have been a source of contention among Marxist scholars since Marx first committed them to paper. This article will offer a critique of both the orthodox and autonomist approaches to this issue, arguing that they constitute transhistorical and analytically inadequate interpretations. In contrast, a social form approach to productive and unproductive labour provides a substantive definition of these categories in relation to the commodity form, and brings class struggle back to the forefront in a theoretically consistent manner.
U2 - 10.1177/0309816816682678
DO - 10.1177/0309816816682678
M3 - Journal article
VL - 41
SP - 91
EP - 114
JO - Capital & Class
JF - Capital & Class
SN - 0309-8168
IS - 1
ER -