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Workers under neo-capitalism

In the history of class society, the situation of each social class is a unique combination of stability and change. The structure remains the same; conjunctural features are often profoundly modified. There is a tremendous difference both in standard of living and in social environment between the slave on the patriarchal Greek farms of the sixth century B. C., the slave on Sicilian plantations in the first century B. C., and a clerical or handicraft slave in Rome or the south of France in the fourth century A. D. Nonetheless all three of these were slaves, and the identity of their social status is undeniable. A nobleman living at the court of Louis XV did not have very much in common with a lord of the manor in Normandy or Burgundy seven centuries earlier— except that both lived on surplus labar extracted from the peasantry through feudal or semi-feudal institutions. When we look at the history of the modern proletariat, whose direct ancestors were the unattached and uprooted wage earners in the medieval towns and the vagabonds of the 16th century— so strikinglydescribed by that great novel from my country ~“11Eulen.spiegel-wenotice the same combination of structural stability and conjunctural change. The proletarian condition is, in a nutshell, the lack of access to means of production or mqans of subsistence which, in a society of generalized commodity production, forces the proletarian to sell his labor-power. In exchange for this labor-power he receives a wage which then enables him to acquire themeans of consumption necessary for satisfying his own’needs and those of his family.

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jueves, 17 de septiembre de 2009

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