For Work / Against Work
Debates on the centrality of work

Marx, Karl Grundrisse 1973 p.699 Book Marx on Abstract Labour, Abstract Labour in Grundrisse Marx, Political Economy, Marxism, Social Class, Capital, History, Historical Context
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Grundrisse

by Marx, Karl (1973)

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and the entire production process appears as not subsumed under the direct skillfulness of the worker, but rather as the technological application of science. [It is,] hence, the tendency of capital to give production a scientific character; direct labour [is] reduced to a mere moment of this process. (p.699)

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Marx, Political Economy, Marxism, Social Class, Capital, History, Historical Context

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Marx on Abstract Labour, Abstract Labour in Grundrisse

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