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30 avril 2020
- handle: 10670/1.57dci1
- isbn: 9781783747795
- eisbn: 9781783747818
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Marx’s theory of exploitation Marxist thought contemporary philosophy economic theory abstract labor labor value Marxist economics History HIS000000 HIS017000 HIS019000 HIS054000 HB HBJF HBJF1 HBTBSujets proches
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Ernesto Screpanti, « 2. Abstract Labour as a Historical Reality », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.57dci1
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The present chapter presents the pars construens of my interpretation of the theory of abstract labour. It begins with an elucidation of the Hegelian notion of the employment contract as an agreement for the exchange of a commodity. Hegel’s view, according to which this kind of contract must be likened to the Roman institution locatio operis, is wrong. Marx, however, develops an alternative vision that evokes the locatio operarum, an agreement whereby workers take on an obligation to obey the...