Marx's Wage Theory in Historical Perspective - Its Origins, Development, and Interpretation

To fully grasp Marx's theory of the labor movement, Lapides supplies a deeper insight into the economic analysis underlying it. This book presents Marx's theory of wages and wage labor, previously scattered throughout his writings, in its entirety for the first time. The author places the theory in its historical context, locating the sources of Marx's wage theory, its intellectual antecedents, and the roots of later controversies, but the primary focus of the work is the actual development of Marx's theory in the words in which he expressed it.

In order to reveal the true nature and rich texture of Marx's thought, the author has assembled Marx's own formulations, scattered throughout his numerous works and buried beneath mountains of commentary and criticism. The book provides a faithful record of the complete evolutionary progress of Marx's theory.

List of contents

Preface
Marx's Revolution in Wage Theory
The Treatment of Wages in the Period Before Adam Smith
Wage Theory in Classical Political Economy
Ascendancy of the Wage-Fund Doctrine
Criticism of the Wage-Fund Doctrine
Radical and Early Socialist Critics of Political Economy
Marx's Early Writings on Wages
The Grundrisse and the Economic Manuscript of 1861-63
Value, Price and Profit
Capital
Is There a "Missing Book" on Wage Labor?
The "Increasing Misery" Debate
Select Bibliography
Index

About the author

KENNETH LAPIDES is an independent researcher and freelance writer. He is the editor of Marx and Engels on the Trade Unions (Praeger, 1987).

Product details

• Authors: Kenneth Lapides, Lapides Kenneth
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.06.1998
• EAN: 9780275962715
• ISBN: 978-0-275-96271-5
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, Labour / income economics, Economic theory & philosophy, Labour Economics, Political Economy, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Sociology: work & labour, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Marxism & Communism, Sociology: work and labour, Economic theory and philosophy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Economics: Theory