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What are the distinctive features of social organization of work in slave society? How is it different from feudal society?

  • UPSC 2014
  • Works and Economic Life

For Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, slavery was the first great class-based mode of production. Moses I. Finley (Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology, 1980) sharpened the idea: a slave society is not merely a society with slaves but one where slave labour produces the surplus of the elite, as in classical Athens, Roman Italy and…

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  • Distinctive features of work in slave society
  • Slave and feudal work compared
  • Indian relevance
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