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Discuss the nature of social organisation of work in capitalist society with reference to the ‘Limits of the working day’.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Works and Economic Life

"The Limits of the Working-Day" opens chapter 10 of Karl Marx's Capital, Vol. I (1867). There Marx shows that under capitalism time itself becomes the object of class struggle. The length of the working day is not fixed by nature or technology but by the contest between capital's hunger for surplus labour and the worker's…

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  • The working day as a social magnitude
  • Capital's drive to stretch the day
  • Struggle and the "normal working day"
  • How limits reshape the organisation of work
  • The contest in India today
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