Marx and Living Labour

This book argues that the category of living labour, whose central role is a direct result of the definition of social labour as a set of production activities, provides a basis for the originality of the categories of Capital, their mode of presentation and also the nature of Marx's critical method.

Laurent Baronian is Assistant Professor in Economics at the Université Paris 3, Sorbonne-Nouvelle, France.

Introduction: The living labour in the critique of political economy Part I: The Labour and its Forms 1. Living Labourand its Objective Forms (commodities and money in history) 2. The Necessity of Money 3. The Historical Making of Living Labour as a Commodity (transition to capitalism) Part II: The Capital-Labour Relationship 4. The Role of Labour in a Capital Theory and the Transformation Problem 5. Co-operation, Abstract Labour and General Intellect 6. The Appropriation of Living Labour and the Capatalist Law of Population Part III: The Curculation of Capital 7. The Formulas of Capital Circuit in the History of Economic Thought 8. The Problem of Constant Capital in Crisis Theory (The weight of dead labour in the 2008 crisis)