In the unlikely event that anyone is interested, re intensification of labor process, the below is from vol 1 Ch 15 of Capital:
> > Generally speaking, the mode of producing relative surplus-value consists > in raising the productive power of the workman, so as to enable him to > produce more in a given time with the same expenditure of labour. > Labour-time continues to transmit as before the same value to the total > product, but this unchanged amount of exchange-value is spread over more > use-value; hence the value of each single commodity sinks. Otherwise, > however, so soon as the compulsory shortening of the hours of labour takes > place. The immense impetus it gives the development of productive power, > and to economy in the means of production, imposes on the workman > increased expenditure of labour in a given time, heightened tension of > labour-power, and closer filling up of the pores of the working-day, or > condensation of labour to a degree that is attainable only within the > limits of the shortened working-day. This condensation of a greater mass > of labour into a given period thenceforward counts for what it really is, > a greater quantity of labour. In addition to a measure of its extension, > i.e., duration, labour now acquires a measure of its intensity or of the > degree of its condensation or density. The denser hour of the ten hours’ > working-day contains more labour, i.e., expended labour-power than the > more porous hour of the twelve hours’ working-day. The product therefore > of one of the former hours has as much or more value than has the product > of 1 1/5 of the latter hours. Apart from the increased yield of relative > surplus-value through the heightened productiveness of labour, the same > mass of value is now produced for the capitalist say by 3 1/3 hours of > surplus-labour, and 6 2/3 hours of necessary labour, as was previously > produced by four hours of surplus-labour and eight hours of necessary > labour > > In the even more unlikely event that anyone is interested in my grappling with this aspect of Marx's labor-time theory of value: https://thewolfatthedoor.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-ambiguities-of-surplus-value.html -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#35088): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/35088 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/111037083/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
