To renew the energy expended in physical labour, the worker must be provided with the requirements of his existence as a functioning organism—food, clothing, and shelter for himself and his family. The labour time socially necessary to produce the necessities of life of the worker is the value of the worker's labour power. The latter's value is, therefore, reducible to a specifiable quantity of commodities: those which the worker requires to be able to subsist and reproduce.


(describing Marx's view), p. 49. - Capitalism and Modern Social Theory (1971)

Anthony Giddens Quotes

To renew the energy expended in physical labour, the worker must be provided with the requirements of his existence as a functioning organism—food, ...

To renew the energy expended in physical labour, the worker must be provided with the requirements of his existence as a functioning organism—food, ...

To renew the energy expended in physical labour, the worker must be provided with the requirements of his existence as a functioning organism—food, ...

To renew the energy expended in physical labour, the worker must be provided with the requirements of his existence as a functioning organism—food, ...