English Explanatory Dictionary

labour power

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The capacity to do work (as opposed to labour, the physical act of working) which becomes a commodity under capitalism.

Word forms

labour power labor power labour-power labor-power

Etymology

Calque of German Arbeitskraft.

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