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title="Proletariat">Proletariat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Private_property" title="Private property">Private property</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Relations_of_production" title="Relations of production">Relations of production</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_the_state" title="Marx's theory of the state">State theory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Working_class" title="Working class">Working class</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed plainlist"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #aaa;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Historical_materialism" title="Historical materialism">History</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Class_conflict" title="Class conflict">Class struggle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_determinism" title="Historical determinism">Historical determinism</a></li> 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class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #aaa;;color: var(--color-base)">Common variants</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><table class="sidebar nomobile nowraplinks" style="background-color: transparent; color: var( --color-base ); border-collapse:collapse; border-spacing:0px; border:none; width:100%; margin:0px; font-size:100%; clear:none; float:none"><tbody><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="padding-top:0.2em;font-style:italic;font-weight:normal;border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;"> <a href="/wiki/Structural_Marxism" title="Structural Marxism">Structural</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content plainlist hlist" style="padding-top:0.15em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Autonomism" title="Autonomism">Autonomist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism" title="Marxism–Leninism">Marxism–Leninism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Guevarism" title="Guevarism">Guevarism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maoism" title="Maoism">Maoism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Titoism" title="Titoism">Titoism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trotskyism" title="Trotskyism">Trotskyism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neo-Gramscianism" title="Neo-Gramscianism">Neo-Gramscianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regulation_school" title="Regulation school">Regulation school</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maoism%E2%80%93Third_Worldism" title="Maoism–Third Worldism">Third-worldist</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="padding-top:0.2em;font-style:italic;font-weight:normal;border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;"> <a href="/wiki/History_and_Class_Consciousness#Summary" title="History and Class Consciousness">Hegelian</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content plainlist hlist" style="padding-top:0.15em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Budapest_School" title="Budapest School">Budapest School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frankfurt_School" title="Frankfurt School">Frankfurt School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marxist_humanism" title="Marxist humanism">Humanist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neue_Marx-Lekt%C3%BCre" title="Neue Marx-Lektüre">Neue Marx-Lektüre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Open_Marxism" title="Open Marxism">Open</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_Marxism" title="Political Marxism">Political</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Praxis_School" title="Praxis School">Praxis School</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="padding-top:0.2em;font-style:italic;font-weight:normal;border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;"> Both</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content plainlist hlist" style="padding-top:0.15em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Black_radical_tradition" title="Black radical tradition">Black</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Classical_Marxism" title="Classical Marxism">Classical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communization" title="Communization">Communization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marxist_feminism" title="Marxist feminism">Feminist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leninism" title="Leninism">Leninism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neo-Marxism" title="Neo-Marxism">Neo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Post-Marxism" title="Post-Marxism">Post</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Marxism" title="Western Marxism">Western</a></li></ul></td> </tr></tbody></table></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed hlist"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #aaa;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Marxist_schools_of_thought" title="Marxist schools of thought">Other variants</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Analytical_Marxism" title="Analytical Marxism">Analytical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Austromarxism" title="Austromarxism">Austromarxism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Centrist_Marxism" title="Centrist Marxism">Centrist</a></li> <li><a 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class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed hlist"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #aaa;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/List_of_contributors_to_Marxist_theory" title="List of contributors to Marxist theory">People</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Marx</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Engels" title="Friedrich Engels">Engels</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Morris" title="William Morris">Morris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Lafargue" title="Paul Lafargue">Lafargue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaak_Illich_Rubin" title="Isaak Illich Rubin">Rubin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Kautsky" title="Karl Kautsky">Kautsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgi_Plekhanov" title="Georgi Plekhanov">Plekhanov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois" title="W. E. B. 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title="Critique of political economy">critique of political economy</a> is what regulates the <a href="/wiki/Exchange_value" title="Exchange value">exchange value</a> of <a href="/wiki/Commodities" class="mw-redirect" title="Commodities">commodities</a> in <a href="/wiki/Trade" title="Trade">trade</a>. In short, socially necessary labour time refers to the average quantity of labour time that must be performed under currently prevailing conditions to produce a commodity.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Unlike individual labour hours in the classical <a href="/wiki/Labour_theory_of_value" class="mw-redirect" title="Labour theory of value">labour theory of value</a> formulated by <a href="/wiki/Adam_Smith" title="Adam Smith">Adam Smith</a> and <a href="/wiki/David_Ricardo" title="David Ricardo">David Ricardo</a>, Marx's exchange value is conceived as a proportion (or 'aliquot part') of society's labour-time. </p><p>Marx did not define this concept in computationally rigorous terms, allowing for flexibility in using it in specific instances to relate average levels of labour productivity to social needs manifesting themselves as monetarily effective market demand for commodities. </p><p>Mathematically <a href="/wiki/Transformation_problem" title="Transformation problem">formalizing the relationship between socially necessary labour and commodity value</a> is difficult, due to incessantly shifting social, physical or technical circumstances affecting the labour process. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Simplified_explanation_of_the_concept">Simplified explanation of the concept</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Socially_necessary_labour_time&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Simplified explanation of the concept"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In a <a href="/wiki/Market_economy" title="Market economy">market economy</a>, labour expenditures producing outputs and the market demand for those outputs are constantly adjusting to each other. This is a complex process, in which enterprises operating at varying levels of <a href="/wiki/Productivity" title="Productivity">productivity</a> and <a href="/wiki/Unit_cost" title="Unit cost">unit-costs</a> compete with each other in responding to the expansion and contraction of total market demand for their output. In the third volume of <i><a href="/wiki/Das_Kapital" title="Das Kapital">Das Kapital</a></i>, Marx discusses how the market value (or "regulating price") of a commodity may be determined under different conditions of demand and productivity. </p><p>A given mass of new value is produced in a given time, but if and how this new value is realised in money terms and distributed as income and reinvestment is finally established only after products are sold at specific market prices. If the market for a <a href="/wiki/Commodity_(Marxism)" title="Commodity (Marxism)">commodity</a> is oversupplied, then labour-time has been expended in excess of what was socially necessary, and exchange value falls. If the market for a commodity is undersupplied, then the labour-time expended on its production has been less than what is socially necessary, and exchange value rises. </p><p>The simplest definition of <i>socially necessary labour time</i> is the amount of labour time performed by a worker of average skill and productivity, working with tools of the average productive potential, to produce a given commodity. This is an "average unit labour-cost", measured in working hours. </p><p>If the average productivity is that of a worker who produces a commodity in one hour, while a less skilled worker produces the same commodity in four hours, then in these four hours the less skilled worker will have only contributed one hour's worth of value in terms of <i>socially necessary labour time</i>. Each hour worked by the unskilled worker will only produce a quarter of the social value produced by the average worker. </p><p>But the production of any commodity generally requires both labour and some previously produced means of production (or capital goods), like tools and materials. The amount of labour so required is called the <i>direct</i> labour input into the commodity. Yet the required capital goods have in their turn been produced (in the past) by labour and other capital goods; and so on for these other capital goods, and so on. The sum of all the amounts of labour, that were direct inputs into this backwards-stretching series of capital goods produced in the past, is called the <i>indirect</i> labour input into the commodity. Putting together the direct and indirect labour inputs, one finally gets the total labour input into the commodity, which may also be called the total <i>embodied labour</i> in it, or its direct and indirect labour contents. </p><p>However, by "socially necessary labour" Marx refers specifically to the total labour-time which on average is <i>currently</i> required to produce an output. It is this current labour cost which determines the value of output. So in a developed market Marx's exchange value refers to the average quantity of living labour which must be performed under currently prevailing conditions to produce a commodity. These conditions are incessantly changing, both in relation to quality of labour, quality of machinery, quality of distribution, and volumes of labour, machinery, sales in the branch, so estimating 'current' requirements is very much an exercise in approximation and dependent on the scales involved. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Operation_of_the_law_of_value">Operation of the law of value</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Socially_necessary_labour_time&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Operation of the law of value"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>If producers produce commodities below the socially average labour-cost, they obtain extra profit upon sale at the ruling market prices, and conversely those producing at above this cost make a proportionate loss. A constant incentive therefore exists to reduce labour-costs by increasing the productivity of the <a href="/wiki/Labour_force" class="mw-redirect" title="Labour force">labour force</a>. </p><p>This can be done through higher exploitation, economising on costs, and better equipment. The long-run effect is that it takes less and less labour-time to produce a commodity. Enterprises cannot usually do very much about reducing their fixed input costs, because these are rarely under their control. But they can always try to reduce their labour costs. </p><p>"Socially necessary labour" therefore refers to at least three economic relationships: </p> <ul><li>between the specific productivity of a producer and the average productivity in his branch;</li> <li>between the outputs of the branch of production and social needs manifested in monetarily effective demand; and</li> <li>between the output of a producer, and the output of the whole branch (that can be sold).</li></ul> <p>In other words, we have to distinguish between </p> <ul><li>labour time necessary for the production of a given amount of a commodity—this quantity defines the aggregate value of the output, arising from the nature of a commodity as a bearer of exchange-value;</li> <li>the quantity of labour time socially necessary to produce the appropriate amount of the product, i.e. the amount of a product which at the <a href="/wiki/Prices_of_production" title="Prices of production">production price</a> meets the effective demand for it—this quantity defines the correspondence between the total quantity of the commodity produced as <a href="/wiki/Use_value" title="Use value">use-values</a> and the effective <a href="/wiki/Demand" title="Demand">demand</a> for those use-values.</li></ul> <p>The former determines the unit value of commodities, hence their production price, and the latter determines the discrepancy between actual supply and effective demand, hence the discrepancy between market price and production price. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Marx_and_Ricardo">Marx and Ricardo</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Socially_necessary_labour_time&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Marx and Ricardo"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Marxist value theory treats economic <a href="/wiki/Value_(economics)" title="Value (economics)">value</a>, i.e. exchange value, as an attribute of labour-products/commodities which exists by virtue of social <a href="/wiki/Relations_of_production" title="Relations of production">relations of production</a> in the capitalist mode of production. Thus, value is a purely social characteristic of commodities. The substance of the value of a commodity is a determinate quantity of social labour. </p><p>That is, the existence of exchange value presupposes <a href="/wiki/Social_relations" class="mw-redirect" title="Social relations">social relations</a> between people organised into a society. "Socially necessary labour time" encapsulates this essential "relatedness" of value—it is labour time assessed in relation to social needs, not merely labour time performed. </p><p>This distinction demarcates Marx from other political economists, but is often overlooked in accounts of Marx's value theory. Marx understood that the casual reader might mistakenly treat his category as interchangeable with its Ricardian predecessor, and in later editions and the <i>Afterword to the Second German Edition</i> implores readers to pay particular attention to the mediations between that old category and the one his own theory sought to establish. Marx's concept of value is not intended to be an <a href="/wiki/Equilibrium_price" class="mw-redirect" title="Equilibrium price">equilibrium price</a>. He does not assume market equilibrium, but aims to explain how the process of convergence between supply and demand practically occurs, that is, why supply and demand meet at a given price point when a sale is realised in a specific market.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Criticism">Criticism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Socially_necessary_labour_time&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Criticism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Marx's interpretation of value from the perspective of society as whole proved elusive for many critics.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Marx tried to answer them in a letter: "the masses of products corresponding to different needs require different and quantitatively determined masses of the total labour of society...What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these [economic] laws themselves. And the form in which this proportional distribution of labour asserts itself, in a state of society where the interconnection of social labour is manifested in the private exchange of the individual products of labour, is precisely the exchange value of these products."<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite these comments, Marx has been criticised strongly for adding the "socially necessary" qualification to labour time by the <a href="/wiki/Libertarianism" title="Libertarianism">libertarian</a> philosopher <a href="/wiki/Robert_Nozick" title="Robert Nozick">Robert Nozick</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Anarchy,_State,_and_Utopia" title="Anarchy, State, and Utopia">Anarchy, State, and Utopia</a></i>, for whom it is an unjustified 'bolt-on' aspect of Marx's theory. <sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One debate in <a href="/wiki/Marxian_economics" title="Marxian economics">Marxian economics</a> concerns the question of whether the product-values formed and traded include both <i>direct</i> and <i>indirect</i> labour, or whether these product-values refer only to <i>current</i> average production costs (or the value of <i>current</i> average replacement costs). </p><p>Mirowski (1989) for example accuses Marx of vacillating between a field theory (labour-time <i>currently</i> socially necessary) and a substance theory of value (<i>embodied</i> labour-time). This kind of criticism is due to a confusion of the process of labour in general (adding use to a product, which under capitalism equates adding value to a commodity) with the task of quantifying the exchange value added.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The general process affixes labour time to a commodity, and providing the commodity functions as such the quantity of labour time is immaterial—an abstract unknown, so to speak—and can be expressed in many ways, e.g. "embodied in", "attached to", "associated with", etc. Quantifying the amount of labour time associated with commodities requires focus on the social, shifting character of socially necessary labour, and specifically recognition that the quantities are 'current' i.e. incessantly changing. Today's value is different from yesterday's and tomorrow's, and the amount of value can only be determined numerically on the basis of a given point in time at which values are realized simultaneously at specific prices.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Thus Marx's theory is best interpreted as a field theory, but for the reasons just stated, modelling the determination of value by socially necessary labour time mathematically is a difficult exercise if not probably impossible.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Socially_necessary_labour_time&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Critique_of_political_economy" title="Critique of political economy">Critique of political economy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Labor-time_calculation" title="Labor-time calculation">Labour time calculation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moishe_Postone" title="Moishe Postone">Moishe Postone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surplus_labour" title="Surplus labour">Surplus labour</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Note">Note</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Socially_necessary_labour_time&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Note"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The concept of socially necessary labour time is discussed on the OPE-L list (Outline of Political Economy) <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/OPE/archive/">[1]</a> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Socially_necessary_labour_time&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFIndart1987" class="citation journal cs1">Indart, Gustavo (1987). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/40402833">"Marx's Law of Market Value"</a>. <i>Science & Society</i>. <b>51</b> (4): 458–467. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0036-8237">0036-8237</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/40402833">40402833</a>. <q>In Capital, Volume I, Marx (1977a, 47) offers the following definition of socially necessary labour time: The labour-time socially necessary is that required to produce an article under the normal conditions of production, and with the average degree of skill and intensity prevalent at the time.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Science+%26+Society&rft.atitle=Marx%27s+Law+of+Market+Value&rft.volume=51&rft.issue=4&rft.pages=458-467&rft.date=1987&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F40402833%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.issn=0036-8237&rft.aulast=Indart&rft.aufirst=Gustavo&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F40402833&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASocially+necessary+labour+time" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMandelFreemanLangstonRicardo1984" class="citation book cs1">Mandel, Ernest; Freeman, Alan; Langston, Robert H.; Ricardo, David; Marx, Karl; Sraffa, Piero, eds. (1984). <i>Ricardo, Marx, Sraffa: the Langston memorial volume</i>. London: Verso Publ. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-86091-778-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-86091-778-6"><bdi>978-0-86091-778-6</bdi></a>. <q>The market price certainly fluctuates according to variations in supply and demand, but these variations take effect around an axis. This is why it can be said that the market price is only fixed by the market, while its determination depends on the quantity of socially necessary abstract labour-time. This latter constitutes the axis around which prices pivot.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Ricardo%2C+Marx%2C+Sraffa%3A+the+Langston+memorial+volume&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Verso+Publ&rft.date=1984&rft.isbn=978-0-86091-778-6&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASocially+necessary+labour+time" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Marx, letter to Dr Kugelmann, July 11, 1868, in Marx/Engels Selected Correspondence, p. 251-252</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">“Chapter 8: Equality, Envy, Exploitation, Etc.” <i>Anarchy, State, and Utopia</i>, by Robert Nozick, Basic Books, 2013, p. 258–260</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Socially_necessary_labour_time&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Roman_Rosdolsky" title="Roman Rosdolsky">Roman Rosdolsky</a>, <i>The Making of Marx's Capital</i>. Pluto Press.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moishe_Postone" title="Moishe Postone">Moishe Postone</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://files.libcom.org/files/Moishe%20Postone%20-%20Time,%20Labor,%20and%20Social%20Domination.pdf">Time labour and social domination</a>, (1993)</li> <li>I.I. Rubin, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/authors/rubin/index.htm"><i>Essays on Marx's theory of value.</i></a></li> <li>Harvey, D. 2008 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://davidharvey.org">Reading Marx's Capital</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://davidharvey.org/2008/06/marxs-capital-class-01/">Reading Marx’s Capital - Class 1, Introduction</a> (video)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anwar_Shaikh_(Economist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Anwar Shaikh (Economist)">Anwar Shaikh</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://homepage.newschool.edu/~AShaikh/pal3.pdf"><i>Market value and Market Price</i></a></li> <li>W. <a href="/wiki/Paul_Cockshott" title="Paul Cockshott">Paul Cockshott</a> and Allin F. Cottrell, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060223113913/http://reality.gn.apc.org/econ/METRIC/metric.htm"><i>Value's Law, Value's Metric</i></a>, September 1994</li></ul> <ul><li>Makoto Itoh, <i>Value and Crisis; Essays on Marxian Economics in Japan</i>. Monthly Review Press.</li> <li>Abelardo Mariña-Flores, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gre.ac.uk/~fa03/iwgvt/files/9-marina.rtf"><i>Market price of Production: Articulation of Market Value and Production Price as a Way for a Structural Interpretation of Disequilibrium in the Framework of the Law of Labour-Value</i></a></li> <li>James Heartfield, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040914004758/http://www.heartfield.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/economy.pdf"><i>The Economy of Time</i></a></li> <li>P. Mirowski, <i>More Heat than Light</i>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780511559990" title="Special:BookSources/9780511559990">9780511559990</a>.</li> <li>Klaus Hagendorf, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://eurodos.chez-alice.fr/docu/econ/hagendorf_labour_theory_of_value_42008.pdf">The Labour Theory of Value. 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