Wage labour · Atlas

in the texts

Commercial Crises of the Nineteenth Century19th Century · English

The economic condition in which free workers are paid wages representing only a fraction of the value they produce, while the employer appropriates the remainder

which wages represent only a fraction of the value of the commodities produced by their labour.

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So soon, however, as in the course of economical development, the workers began to produce no longer as individuals for their own use, or for the direct use of others in their locality, but as wage-earners, bound together by no tie other than that of turning out commodities or articles of use in the social conditions of the time to the order of an employer who threw the goods on the market;

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The Communist Manifesto19th Century · English

Labor performed by the proletariat for wages that produces capital but leaves workers with only subsistence.

Let us now take wage-labour.

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But does wage-labour create any property for the labourer?

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Capital is, therefore, not a personal, it is a social power.

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