Marxism, Neoclassical Economics and the Length of the Working Day

Philip, B.A.

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“…Other work in the Marxian political economy tradition has more explicitly engaged with issues of work-time, preferences, and consumption. For example, Philp (2001) and Philp, Harvie, and Slater (2005) argue that respective class power (between capitalists and workers) is an important driver in shaping the preferences, and framing the constraints, for workers. As such approaches that ignore the preference-formation process are severely limited.…”

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Time Use, Exploitation, and the Dual-Career Household: Competing Perspectives

Philp¹,

Wheatley²

2011

American Journal of Economics and Sociology

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This article evaluates Laibman's reformulation of Marxian exploitation theory, and compares it to two preference-based analyses of household time use (advanced by Becker and Hakim). Using a quantitative Marxist approach, and the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), we show profound dissatisfaction with working hours for members of dual-career households, and inequality, by gender, vis-à-vis pure consumption time. The results support exploitation-based theories of the household, and cast doubt on such preference-based theories of time use.

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Time Use, Exploitation, and the Dual-Career Household: Competing Perspectives

Philp¹,

Wheatley²

2011

American Journal of Economics and Sociology

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“…Instead, they argue, there emerge norms or ideals, which are in part determined by the institutional structure (one example might be the establishment of a normal working day). Finally, Marxian approaches explain the determination of working hours as an outcome of a class struggle between collective capital and collective labor (one such explanation is offered by Philp 2001). In such approaches, it is power and conflict, rather than individual rational choice in a harmonious environment, that are key in explaining the duration and dynamics of working hours.…”

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Preferences, Power, and the Determination of Working Hours

Philp¹,

Slater²,

Harvie³

2005

Journal of Economic Issues

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“…Hence, according to Marx, the capitalist use of labour-saving machinery, instead of reducing labour-time, ‘sweeps away all customary and natural limits to the length of the working day’ (Marx, 1976: 532). The fight to impose limits on work does not end with the passage of eight- or 10-hours laws, but is endemic to capitalism because it stems directly from capital’s use of labour-power (Philip, 2001).…”

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What was primitive accumulation? Reconstructing the origin of a critical concept

Roberts

2017

European Journal of Political Theory

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The ongoing critical redeployment of primitive accumulation proceeds under two premises. First, it is argued that Marx, erroneously, confined primitive accumulation to the earliest history of capitalism. Second, Marx is supposed to have teleologically justified primitive accumulation as a necessary precondition for socialist development. This article argues that reading Marx’s account of primitive accumulation in the context of contemporaneous debates about working class and socialist strategy rebuts both of these criticisms. Marx’s definition of primitive accumulation as the ‘prehistory of capital’ does not deny its contemporaneity, but marks the distinction between the operations of capital and those of other agencies – especially the state – which are necessary, but also external, to capital itself. This same distinction between capital, which accumulates via the exploitation of labour-power, and the state, which becomes dependent upon capitalist accumulation for its own existence, recasts the historical necessity of primitive accumulation. Marx characterizes the modern state as the armed and servile agent of capital, willing to carry out primitive accumulation wherever the conditions of capitalist accumulation are threatened. Hence, the recent reconstructions risk obliterating Marx’s key insights into the specificity of a) capital as a form of wealth and b) capital’s relationship to the state.

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Marxism, Neoclassical Economics and the Length of the Working Day

Cited by 6 publications

References 16 publications

Time Use, Exploitation, and the Dual-Career Household: Competing Perspectives

Time Use, Exploitation, and the Dual-Career Household: Competing Perspectives

Preferences, Power, and the Determination of Working Hours

What was primitive accumulation? Reconstructing the origin of a critical concept

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