Examples of using Labour-time in English and their translations into Swedish
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Value is socially necessary labour-time.
Universal labour-time itself is an abstraction which,
It is not adequate the call value labour-time.
In return, he has bought with more labour-time the quantity of labour realised in the money which comes to him as wages.
The worker is here nothing more than personified labour-time.
But now assume that the labour-time necessary for the production of a coat rises to twice as much, or falls to half as much.
The value of these commodities is determined by the labour-time required for their reproduction;
Relative value” here means nothing other than the exchangeable value as determined by labour-time.
As soon as we reduce the values, now expressed in money, to labour-time, the contradiction becomes even more absurd.
The determination of this surplus-value itself, however, only arises out of the determination of value by labour-time.
This is only possible if the number of labourers grows or if the labour-time during which they work, is prolonged.
That he materialises more labour-time in his product than is materialised in the product that keeps him in existence as a worker.
The quantity of value of a commodity accordingly would remain constant if the labour-time required for its production were constant.
The labour-time of the individual is thus, in fact, the labour-time required by society to produce a particular use-value.
cost more labour-time than before, more coal than before must be given for them.
Only for the sake of the parallel with commodity-production do we presuppose that each producer's share of necessities of life is determined by his labour-time.
All these phenomena seem to contradict the determination of value by labour-time as much as the nature of surplus-value consisting of unpaid surplus-labour.
quality as we meet it in the question of labour-time.
If, in the above example, 1 lb. sugar costs the same amount of labour-time as before, then its“relative value” in the first sense has not altered.
The labour-time required in these operations is devoted to certain necessary operations of the reproduction process of capital, but yields no additional value.
Sugar can equal 2 lbs. coffee, as before, even though the labour-time for the production of sugar
If the labour-time necessary for the production of linen decreases by half, on the other hand(perhaps
a certain quantity a of some commodity to cost b labour-time, a quantity na of the same commodity will cost nb labour-time.
The conversion of all commodities into labour-time is no greater an abstraction,
not to labour-time, social, homogeneous labour.
That is to say, the labour-time necessary to produce different commodities determines the proportion in which they exchange for one another,
I call"necessary" labour-time, and the labour expended during that time I call"necessary" labour.
The levelling out of values by labour-time and even less the levelling out of cost-prices by a general rate of profit does not take place in this direct form between different countries.
not because it decreases the labour-time for material production in general.
The labour-time socially necessary is that required to produce an article under the normal conditions of production,