From: Rakesh Bhandari (rakeshb@STANFORD.EDU)
Date: Thu Jan 15 2004 - 13:13:15 EST
For factories to be movable abroad where the rate of exploitation is higher, mass industrial labor had to have been simplified through the Babbage principle, no? Doesn't the movement of mental laboring activities, e.g. writing code, assume the application of the Babbage principle to mental operations (investigated by William Ashworth as pointed out to me by Michael Perelman)? How does Harry Braverman's work fit into this discussion? In raising this question, I am not accepting Gleicher's theory of the ontology of abstract labor; while showing how abstract labor becomes a practical activity through the reorganization of the labor process through the Babbage principle, Gleicher does not seem to explain why it is that value has to take the money form. Rakesh
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