Some further aspects of the concept of abstract labour are provided by Marxian anthropologist Lawrence Krader and the mathematician Ulrich Krause.
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Work becomes just work, workers become an abstract labour force, and the control over work becomes mainly a management prerogative.
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This is in keeping, Beller argues, with Marx'conception of abstract labour, not a phenomenon requiring the transcendence of that analysis.
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The conceptual issues associated with the concept of abstract labour have been one of the main reasons why many economists abandoned the labour theory of value.
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According to Marx, the substance of product-value is human labour-time in general, labour-in-the-abstract or " abstract labour ".
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Human labor becomes dominated by the economic exchange of the products of that labor, and labor itself becomes a tradeable abstract value ( see Abstract labour and concrete labour ).
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Replying to this type of criticism, the Russian Marxist Isaak Illich Rubin argued that the concept of abstract labour was really much more complex than it seemed at first sight.
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He argues that from the Marxist stand-point of two-fold nature of labour or abstract labour and concrete labour, that political parties or working within state structures.
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For some, abstract labour is an economic category which applies only to the labour power or work-capacity is universally treated as a commodity with a certain monetary cost or earnings potential.
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Holloway sees the problem of political activism, in terms of people struggling in-and-against the system, as one of continuing to perpetuate capitalism through their commitment to abstract labour.