Labor Value and Labor as Value

Robert Hurley, Temps critiques — 2021-12-30T11:31:48Z

The Performative Discourse of Power
With its attacks against state handouts and its rejection of guaranteed income, Macron's speech of November 9th on labor value (or on labor “as value”) was little more than a rehearsal of what Jospin1 had said back in 1998 during the Movement of the Unemployed, which terminated in 2001 with the creation of an employment bonus that would be gradually transformed into added work time after 2006. It also replicated Sarkozy's famous “Work more and earn more” (…)

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