Their intention was to discover ways to reduce the toll of the workplace and to increase productivity. W. S. Jevons took up this research & was reprimanded for it because labor was only supposed to be the sacrifice of labor.
I tell this story in the Invisible Handcuffs.
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 5:53 AM, James Heartfield <james at heartfield.org>wrote:
> Here's a question for the Marx scholars among you.
>
> In different accounts Marx says that he was struggling with the ideas of
> labour and exchange, until he made the distinction between labour and
> labour power. I got the impression that 'labour power' was Marx's own
> coinage. So I was a bit surprised, when reading the the Anti Slavery
> Reporter for Nov 1858, a paper by the secretary of the Anti Slavery
> Society, read at the Second Annual Conference for the Promotion of Social
> Science, a confident reference to the 'labour power' of the emancipated
> West Indians. Chamerovzow was radical, but I think knew nothing of Marx,
> certainly not in 1858. His audience would not have, either. Was the concept
> of Labour Power actually just well known, and Marx used it?
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