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LECTURE 13
3: CLASSICAL APPROACHES TO WORK
Objectives
Karl Marx on Work and Society
Capitalism and the Division of Labor
Unalienated Production—Utopian concept
Capitalism and Exploitation
Karl Marx on the Division of Labor
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Un-alienated Production…Marx Utopian Concept
• Alienation would remain as an unfortunate but necessary aspect of
work even under communism.
The consumption of labor power does not take place within the
sphere of circulation, or market, at a fair exchange, but within
the sphere of production under conditions of gross inequality.
…Capitalism and Exploitation
• Marx regarded all this (exploitation) as
temporary and socially constructed which
can be changed though the labor conscious
and revolution.
Any Questions?
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