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Discuss three categories of labour

Discuss three categories of labour

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Faith
Labour can be categorized into three components as follows:
1. Necessary labour
This refers to the situation when a person is producing just enough for his/her
subsistence. What he produces is referred to as a necessary product. Necessary labour
prevails in a communal economic system where there is no appropriation or alienation of
an individual’s labour power.
2. Surplus Labour
Surplus labour is that labour a person expends/uses to produce more than what is
necessary for his subsistence. The excess product he produces is surplus product. Surplus
labour emerges out of social changes in the division of labour based on unequal
accessibility to and distribution of societal wealth.
3. Wage Labour
This exists where producers are extricated or removed from the means of production and
offer their labour power for wages. Wage labour is a pre-condition for the reproduction of
the capitalist system. It is the wage labourers who facilitate production for the capitalist
economy. Once this separation occurs, the capitalist system can reproduce the relations of
production and further separation within a social formation. It involves the articulation
process in which the capitalist M.O.P. becomes dominant.
Titany answered the question on December 8, 2021 at 08:41

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