Keywords
Marx
Domestic labour
Labour power
Value theory.
Domestic labour
Labour power
Value theory.
How to Cite
FITZSIMONS, Alejandro; STAROSTA, Guido. A commodity “like all other commodities”? : reexamining the determination of the value of labour power. Economia e Sociedade, Campinas, SP, v. 28, n. 3, p. 665–687, 2019. Disponível em: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/ecos/article/view/8658152. Acesso em: 20 jul. 2024.
Abstract
This article addresses the process of production of labour power with a view to re-examining Marx’s stance on the determination of the value of this ‘peculiar commodity’. In order to do so, the article critically reviews the main contributions which have called into question the Marxian analysis. It also offers an alternative argument that develops additional grounds for Marx’s explanation of the determination of the value of labour power by the socially necessary labour time required for its production. Lastly, the implications of this new perspective are illustrated through a discussion of the issues raised by the Marxist debate on domestic labour.
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STAROSTA, G.; FITZSIMONS, A. Rethinking the determination of the value of labor power. Review of Radical Political Economics, v. 50, n. 1, p. 99-115, 2018.
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BENERÍA, L. Reproduction, production and the sexual division of labour. Cambridge Journal of Economics, v. 3, n. 3, p. 203-225, 1979.
BENETTI, C.; CARTELIER, J. El capital como extension de la mercancia: una contradiccion de la economia politica. Lecturas de Economía, n. 14, p. 13-52, 1984.
BENSTON, M. The political economy of women’s liberation. Monthly Review, v. 21, n. 4, p. 13-27, 1969.
BORTKIEWICZ, L. Value and price in the Marxian system. International Economic Papers, n. 2, p. 5-60, 1952.
BOWLES, S.; GINTIS, H. Structure and practice in the labor theory of value. The Review of Radical Political Economics, v. 12, n. 4, p. 1-26, 1981.
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DALLA COSTA, M.; JAMES, S. The power of women and the subversion of the community. Bristol: Falling Wall Press, 1972.
DUMENIL, G. Beyond the transformation riddle: a labor theory of value. Science and Society, v. 47, n. 4, p. 427-450, 1983.
ELDRED, M.; HALDON, M. Reconstructing value-form analysis. Capital & Class, v. 5, n. 1, p. 24-60, 1981.
FINE, B. Labour market theory: a constructive reassessment. London: Routledge, 1988.
FINE, B.; LAPAVITSAS, C.; SAAD-FILHO, A. Transforming the transformation problem: why the “new interpretation” is a wrong turning. Review of Radical Political Economics, v. 36, n. 1, p. 3-19, 2002.
FITZSIMONS, A. ¿Qué es el “fetichismo de la mercancía”? Un análisis textual de la sección cuarta del capítulo primero de El Capital de Marx. Revista de Economía Crítica, n. 21, p. 43-58, 2016.
FOLEY, D. K. The value of money the value of labor power and the marxian transformation problem. Review of Radical Political Economics, v. 14, n. 2, p. 37-47, 1982.
FRAAD, H.; RESNICK, S.; WOLFF, R. For every knight in shining armor, there’s a castle waiting to be cleaned: a marxist-feminist analysis of the household. In: FRAAD, H.; RESNICK, S.; WOLFF, R. Bringing it all back home. Class, gender and power in the modem household. London: Pluto, 1994. p. 1-41.
GARDINER, J. The political economy of domestic labour in capitalist society. In: BARKER, D.; ALLEN, S., Dependence and exploitation in work and marriage. London: Longman, 1976. p. 109-120.
HARRISON, J. Political economy of housework. Bulletin of the Conference of Socialist Economists, v. 2, n. 1, p. 35-52, 1973.
HARTMANN, H. Marxismo y feminismo: un matrimonio mal avenido. Hacia una unión más progresiva. Zona Abierta, n. 24, p. 85-113, 1980.
HARVEY, P. Marx’s theory of the value of labor power: an assessment. Social Research, v. 50, n. 2, p. 305-344, 1983.
HIMMELVEIT, S.; MOHUN, S. The anomalies of capital. Capital & Class, v. 2, n. 3, p. 67-105, 1978.
HIMMELWEIT, S.; MOHUN, S. Domestic labour and capital. Cambridge Journal of Economics, v. 1, n. 1, p. 15-31, 1977.
INMAN, M. Woman-Power. Los Angeles: Committee to Organize the Advancement of Women, 1942.
IÑIGO CARRERA, J. De la simple mercancía a la mercancía-capital: la transformación de los valores en precios de producción. Ciudad de Buenos Aires: CICP, 1995.
JEVONS, W. S. The theory of political economy. London: Macmillan, 1871.
KEYNES, J. M.. Teoría General de la Ocupación el Interés y el Dinero. Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2001.
KICILLOF, A.; STAROSTA, G. On materiality and social form: a political critique of Rubin’s value-form theory. Historical Materialism, v. 15, n. 3, p. 9-43, 2007.
KRÄTKE, M. A very political political economist: Rosa Luxemburg’s theory of wages. In: BELLOFIORE, R. Rosa Luxemburg and the critique of political economy. Oxford: Routledge, 2009. p. 139-174.
LIPIETZ, A. The so-called ‘transformation problem’ revisited. Journal of Economic Theory, p. 59-88, 1982.
MARX, K. Teorías sobre la plusvalía II. Tomo IV de El Capital. México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1987.
MARX, K. Economic manuscript of 1861-63. In: MARX, K.; ENGELS, F. Marx & Engels Collected works. New York: International Publishers, 1988. v. 30.
MARX, K. Contribución a la crítica de la economía política. México: Siglo XXI, 1997a.
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MARX, K. El capital. Crítica de la economía política. México: Siglo XXI, 1999a. Tomo I, v. I.
MARX, K. El capital. Crítica de la economía política ,. México: Siglo XXI, 1999b. Tomo I, v. 2.
MAVROUDEAS, S. The monetary equivalent of labour and certain issues regarding money and the value of labour-power. Economie Appliquée, v. 54, n. 1, p. 37-54, 2001.
MOHUN, S. A Re(in)statement of the labour theory of value. Cambridge Journal of Economics, v. 18, n. 4, p. 391-412, 1994.
MORTON, P. A woman’s work is never done. In: ALTBACH, E. From feminism to liberation. Cambridge: Schenkman Books, 1971.
MUTARI, E. “...As broad as our life experience”: visions of feminist political economy, 1972-1991. Review of Radical Political Economics, v. 33, n. 4, p. 379-399, 2001.
PICCHIO, A. Social reproduction: the political economy of the labour market. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
REUTEN, G. Value as social form. In: WILLIAMS, M. Value, social form and the state. Nueva York: St. Martin’s, 1988. p. 42-61.
REUTEN, G.; WILLIAMS, M. Value-form, and the state. The tendencies of accumulation and the determination of economic poilicy in capitalist society. London & New York: Routledge, 1989.
RICARDO, D. Principios de economía política y tributación. México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1994.
ROBLES BÁEZ, M. L. Marx: lógica y capital. La dialéctica de la tasa de ganancia y la forma-precio. México: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2011.
SAAD-FILHO, A. The value of Marx: political economy for contemporary capitalism. London: Routledge, 2002.
SECOMBE, W. The housewife and her labour under capitalism. New Lelft Review, n. 83, p. 3-24, 1974.
SMITH, P. Domestic labour and Marx’s theory of value. In: KUHN, A.; WOLPE, A. Feminism and materialism: women and modes of production. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978. p. 199-219.
STAROSTA, G.; FITZSIMONS, A. Rethinking the determination of the value of labor power. Review of Radical Political Economics, v. 50, n. 1, p. 99-115, 2018.
THOMAS, C. Domestic labour and the capitalist mode of production: a theoretical and historical analysis. PhD Thesis. University of Warwick, 1987.
VOGEL, L. Domestic labour revisited. Science & Society, v. 64, n. 2, p. 151-170, 2000.
WERLHOF, C. von. Women’s work: The blind spot in the critique of political economy. In: MIES, M.; BENNHOLDT-THOMSEN, V.; VON WERLHOF, Women: the last colony. London: Zed Books, 1988. p. 13-26.
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