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№ 2019/3

Political economy


MANDYBURA Viktor O.1

1Institute for Economics and Forecasting, NAS of Ukraine

Political economy of alienation and explotation of labor: retrospective approaches and modern problems

Ekon. teor. 2019; 3:5-28https://doi.org/10.15407/etet2019.03.005


ABSTRACT ▼

The article considers various peculiarities in the formation and further development of theoretical approaches formed by the representatives of the three main schools of classical political economy regarding the problems of understanding the essence of the phenomenon of alienation and exploitation of labor in the system of their interconnection and interaction. The author summarizes the main viewpoints of the founders of classical political economy, as well as the modern achievements by foreign and Ukrainian researchers in understanding the deep essence of the relations of alienation and exploitation of labor in the context of their binary unity. He also analyzes the current condition of these relations, phenomena and processes, which are primarily influenced by the latest wave of scientific and technological revolution, as well as the most significant changes that have now occurred in the system of alienation and exploitation of labor in the context of the realization of interests of the corporate-monopoly capital as to the exploitation of hired labor with higher creative and intellectual skills.

Keywords:alienation of labor, labor exploitation, labor force, capital, contradiction in the relations between labor and capital.


JEL: А13

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