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“on the average,” he is perfectly comfortable

In the form given to it by Jerome in the sentence cited above, the phrase upon which the issue turns is “average skill.” Since, with the development of technology and the application to it of the fundamental sciences, the labor processes of society have come to embody a greater amount of scientific…

—p.425 Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century 20. A Final Note on Skill (424) by Harry Braverman
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Marx was not only a scientist but also a revolutionary

  • To understand this, it is necessary to keep in mind that Marx was not only a scientist but also a revolutionary; that so far as he was concerned the capitalist mode of production had already operated for a sufficiently long period of time; and that he anticipated not its prolonged continuation bu…
—p.422 19. Productive and Unproductive Labor (410) by Harry Braverman
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even labor which has no productivity

For economists today, therefore, the question of “productive” or “unproductive” labor has lost the great interest which it had for the early bourgeois economists, just as it has lost interest for capitalist management itself. Instead, the measuring of the productivity of labor has come to be applie…

—p.416 19. Productive and Unproductive Labor (410) by Harry Braverman
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Marx defined productive labor

Essentially, Marx defined productive labor under capitalism as labor which produces commodity value, and hence surplus value, for capital. This excludes all labor which is not exchanged against capital. Self-employed proprietors—farmers, artisans, handicraftsman, tradesmen, professionals, all other…

—p.411 Introduction (3) by Harry Braverman
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Marx defined productive labor

Essentially, Marx defined productive labor under capitalism as labor which produces commodity value, and hence surplus value, for capital. This excludes all labor which is not exchanged against capital. Self-employed proprietors—farmers, artisans, handicraftsman, tradesmen, professionals, all other…

—p.411 Introduction (3) by Harry Braverman