A historical approach to the question of abstract labour
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5069882 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Gleicher (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 97-122 |
| Publication date | 1983-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Capital & Class (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-8168 • E-ISSN: 2041-0980 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/030981688302100106 |
| OpenAlex | W2042608668 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 16 |
Few topics in political economy have enjoyed as much attention, or have been the center of such controversy as the "labour theory of value" - a theory which gained prominence in the writings of the classical school of the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and which continues to be a major topic of Marxist political economy into the present period. The object of this paper is to outline a coherent approach to the labour theory of value by addressing one central problem that has long plagued Marxist theoreticians, and whose various solutions underlie the stances that have been adopted by different schools toward virtually all of the other important topics of Marxist thought. That problem is the sense in which what Marx termed the "abstract labour" representing the value of commodities, is an extant social phenomenon in capitalist economies; in short, the problem of the "ontology" of abstract labour
Aesthetics · Boom · Economics · Epistemology · Extant taxon · Labor theory of value · Marxist philosophy · Neoclassical economics · Object (grammar) · Ontology · Period (music) · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · Economic Theory and Institutions · Economic Theory and Policy · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
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The difficult labour of a theory of social value; metaphors and systematic dialectics at the beginning of Marx’s Capital
Social Relations, Commodity-Fetishism and Marx's Critique of Political Economy
A Monetary Labor Theory of Value
The transformation non-problem and the non-transformation problem
Value, Labour and Negativity
Beyond the Technological and the Social Paradigms
Concrete and Abstract Labour in Marx's Theory of Value
The dynamics of value, price and profit
Karl Marx and the Close of His System
Labor and monopoly capital
The Marxian theory of value and heterogeneous labour
Labor and Monopoly Capital
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859)
The Origins of Capitalist Development
Theories of Surplus Value
Essays on Marx's Theory of Value
The Value of Money the Value of Labor Power and the Marxian Transformation Problem
On the Obsolescence of the Marxian Theory of Value
Labour and Value in Marx's System
The Remystification of Value
Reconstructing Value-Form Analysis
The law of value in Ricardo and Marx
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 2024 (40) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |