I've adopted Charles' year-2000 book FROM CAPITALISM TO EQUALITY [OPE-L:6648] for classroom use in Marxist Economic Theory for this semester. I'd recommend it to others teaching such undergraduate courses. By the end of the semester, I'll know how students respond to it. Thanks for the work, Charles! Paul P.S. In an earlier reply to Jerry, there is a typo and my correct faculty is Arts and Sciences. ************************************************************************ Paul Zarembka, editor, RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY at ********************* http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka charlie <charles1848@value.net> said, on 01/24/02: >Along with a general exposition of how exploitation >condemns workers to subhuman labor that is economically >ready to be mechanized, my book gives a historical example >from the early automobile industry. >Charles Andrews >Web site for the book From Capitalism to Equality is at >http://www.laborrepublic.org >Paul Cockshott wrote: >> The locus in Marx is Chapter 15, section 2 of Capital, I. >> (Machinery and Large-Scale Industry: The Value Transferred by the >> Machinery to the Product). Pp. 513-17 in the Fowkes translation, >> ending "Hence we nowhere find a more shameless squandering of human >> labour-power for despicable purposes than in England, the land of >> machinery." >> No the point is that they typically only pay about 50% of the labour cost >> but 100% of the cost of the means of production. This systematically skews >> costs away from labour minimisation.
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