Confronting the Time Bind
Work, Family, and Capitalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9199125 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Meiksins (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 1 |
| Publication date | 1998-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Monthly Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-0520 • E-ISSN: 0027-0520 |
| Publisher | Monthly Review Foundation (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.14452/mr-049-09-1998-02_1 |
| OpenAlex | W2031212945 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Socialists have long contended that capitalism produces distinctive and undesirable structures of time. Marx argued that capitalism created an ineluctable downward pressure on wages, forcing workers to work long hours in order to earn enough to sustain themselves. By the same token, lengthening the working day was one of the ways by which employers could increase the production of surplus-value. Marx's son-in-law, Paul Lafargue, added that capitalism disciplined workers by creating a kind of ideology of work, a moral compulsion to labor; although, in Lafargue's view, this was in part responsible for capitalism's periodic crises of overproduction, it was one of the ways by which employers were able to enforce work discipline.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Capitalism · Economics · Ideology · Microeconomics · Neoclassical economics · Order (exchange) · Political science · Politics · Production (economics) · Sociology · Surplus value · Value (mathematics) · Work (physics) · Finance · Law · Political Economy and Marxism
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2007 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |