Wage labour
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wage-labour · living labour · wage-earners · wage-labor · wages
in the texts
Commercial Crises of the Nineteenth Century
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.
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;
The Communist Manifesto
Labor performed by the proletariat for wages that produces capital but leaves workers with only subsistence.
that there can no longer be any wage-labour when there is no longer any capital.
What, therefore, the wage-labourer appropriates by means of his labour, merely suffices to prolong and reproduce a bare existence.
In bourgeois society, living labour is but a means to increase accumulated labour.