labour-power

The labour, however, that forms the substance of value, is homogeneous human labour, expenditure of one uniform labour-power.

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Each of these units is the same as any other, so far as it has the character of average labour-power of society, and takes effect as such; that is, so far as it requires for producing a commodity, no more time than is needed on an average, no more than is socially necessary.

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The labour, however, that forms the substance of value, is homogeneous human labour, expenditure of one uniform labour-power.

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Page 46: On the one hand all labour is, speaking physiologically, an expenditure of human labour-power, and in its character of identical abstract human labour it creates and forms the value of commodities.

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The total labour-power of society, which is embodied in the sum total of the values of all commodities produced that society, counts here as one homogeneous mass of human labour-power, composed though it be of innumerable individual units.

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It is the expenditure of simpler labour-power, i.e., of the labour-power which, on an average, apart from any special development, exists in the organism of very ordinary individual.

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Each of these units is the same as any other, so far as it has the character of average labour-power of society, and takes effect as such; that is, so far as it requires for producing a commodity, no more time than is needed on an average, no more than is socially necessary.

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The value of a commodity represents human labour in the abstract, the expenditure of human labour-power in general.

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It is owing to the fact that the linen contains only half as much labour as the coat, and consequently, that in the production of the latter, labour-power must have been expended during twice the time necessary for the production of the former.

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On the other hand, he has a presentiment, that labour, so far as it manifests itself in the value of commodities, counts only as expenditure of labour-power, but he treats this expenditure as a mere sacrifice of rest, freedom, and happiness, not as at the same time the normal activity of living beings.

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