영어에서 Labor-power 을 사용하는 예와 한국어로 번역
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Save labor-power.
So the workers are no longer powerless individuals, forced by hunger to sell their labor-power at any price.
Labor-power is, in our present-day capitalist society, a commodity like every other commodity, but yet a very peculiar commodity.
He himself is a commodity, but his labor-power is not his commodity.
None of that is functional to capitalism, and all of it prioritizes human need over the reproduction of labor-power for capital.
Because the buyers and sellers of a commodity, such as labor-power, are constrained only according to their own free will.
Just as labor-power must be produced and reproduced in actual social relations, so these relations subsist in concrete space and time.
This is the essence of direct appropriation and includes not only the price of labor-power but also the prices of other commodities.
That as an independent social power- i.e., as the power of a part of society- it preserves itself and multiplies by exchange with direct, living labor-power.
Actually, the worker has exchanged his commodity, labor-power, for commodities of all kinds, and, moreover, at a certain ratio.
He who was previously the money-owner now strides out in front as a capitalist; the possessor of labor-power follows as his worker.
But within the limits of these fluctuations the price of labor-power will be determined by the cost of production, by the labor-time necessary for production of this commodity: labor-power.
By the same reasoning, challenging racism, sexism, or any oppression that impacts the social reproduction of labor-power, can hinder the reproduction of capital.
Wages therefore are only a special name for the price of labor-power, and are usually called the price of labor; it is the special name for the price of this peculiar commodity which has no other repository than human flesh and blood.
The most general definition, used by Marxists and socialists, is that the working class includes all those who have nothing to sell but their labor-power and skills.
But, as more recent scholarship suggests, this approach also reveals labor-power itself to be a more complex, differentiated, category.
The shorter the time required for training up to a particular sort of work, the smaller is the cost ofproduction of the worker, the lower is the price of his labor-power, his wages.
For example, the definitions of the working class as the set of all wage workers or of all those who, employed or not, have no other resources than the sale of their labor-power, although not in themselves false, are vague, abstract, and incomplete.
And people can anddo continually modify these relations in ways that best accommodate their needs, and may in fact be disruptive to capitalism's needs for labor-power.
But in cases of work that is spatially immobile- agro-business,childcare for wealthy families in the Global North, or construction, restaurant and hotel service work in those same zones- cheap labor-power(and its human bearers) must be brought to where this work is directly required.
The separation was madecomplete between the means of production concentrated in the hands of the capitalists, on the one side, and the producers, possessing nothing but their labor-power, on the other.
These laws are the key to understanding how the application of natural-scientific rationality in production, spurred on by thecompetition of individual firms, creates the"macro" social irrationality of wasted capacity, wasted labor-power and wasted opportunities for human development- as well as a vast and growing mass of human misery.