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What characterizes degradation of work in capitalist society according to Marx?

  • UPSC 2022
  • Works and Economic Life

For Karl Marx, conscious, purposive labour is what makes us human: in changing nature, people change themselves. Degradation of work is the historical process by which capitalism strips labour of skill, control and meaning. Traced from the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844) to Capital, Vol. I (1867), it springs from the drive for surplus value,…

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  • The root: labour power as a commodity
  • Characteristics of degraded work
  • Harry Braverman's extension
  • Critiques
  • Indian evidence
  • Conclusion

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