Classical Political Economy : Primitive Accumulation and the Social Division of Labor

2013 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Primitive Accumulation ◽  
Social Division ◽  
Classical Political Economy ◽  
The Social

The Social Character of Value

2018 ◽  
pp. 19-20
Author(s):  
Rosa Luxemburg
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Use Value ◽  
Social Character ◽  
Exchange Value ◽  
Classical Political Economy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Complete Failure ◽  
Abstract Labor ◽  
Clear Conception ◽  
Rosa Luxemburg

In this excerpt from The Accumulation of Capital, Rosa Luxemburg explains how classical political economy lacks a clear conception of the commodity—both in the terms of the distinctions between use value and exchange value, as well as between concrete and abstract labor. This metaphysical, essentialist framework leads to a complete failure to understand the social character of labor's capacity to create value.

The Long Shadow of Work: Education, the Family, and the Reproduction of the Social Division of Labor

1999 ◽  
Vol 25 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 286-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Bowles ◽  
Herbert Gintis ◽  
Peter Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Social Division ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Work Education

Differentiation and Solidarity in Agricultural Communities

1968 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 344-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Young ◽  
Berkeley Spencer ◽  
Jan Flora
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Social Division ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Agricultural Communities ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The Social ◽  
Community Growth ◽  
Degree Of Differentiation

The hypothesis that communities may be characterized by their degree of sociocultural complexity has taken many forms, from earlier polar typologies to recent detailed analyses of the social division of labor. Without reviewing such well-known material, it may be said that the significance of such a dimension - here called differentiation - is widely recognized. It is a concept that organizes a wide variety of institutional patterning previously thought to be disparate. It also allows one to rank communities from simple to complex, even when the communities are from different cultural contexts. A third asset involves the assessment of degree of differentiation at an earlier time period. When this is done, it is possible to compute increase or decrease in differentiation, in short, to measure "community growth."

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