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Distinguish between the social organization of work in feudal society and in capitalist society.

  • UPSC 2015
  • Works and Economic Life

For Karl Marx, work is organised around the way surplus is pumped out of the direct producer. The feudal lord takes it from a peasant who still holds land and tools; the capitalist buys the labour power of a worker who holds nothing else. Who commands, how far one may move, who owns the clock…

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