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This book focuses on the relationship between the process of producing commodities and the process of social reproduction of the labouring population, and seeks to restore that problematic relationship to the central place it had in the analysis of Smith, Ricardo, and Marx.

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"A welcome addition to advanced undergraduate and graduate collections as an extension and additon to more wide-based readings in the history of economic thought." Choice

Table of Contents
Introduction; 1. Wages as exogenous costs of social reproduction; 2. The displacement effect of the wages fund theory; 3. The role of the state in the labour market: i.e. social insecurity; 4. Women and The Poor Law; 5. Women's work at the core of the labour market; 6. The supply of labour as process of social reproduction; Notes; Bibliography.

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 10/22/1992 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780521418720, 978-0521418720
      ISBN10: 0521418720

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book focuses on the relationship between the process of producing commodities and the process of social reproduction of the labouring population, and seeks to restore that problematic relationship to the central place it had in the analysis of Smith, Ricardo, and Marx.

      Trade Review
      "A welcome addition to advanced undergraduate and graduate collections as an extension and additon to more wide-based readings in the history of economic thought." Choice

      Table of Contents
      Introduction; 1. Wages as exogenous costs of social reproduction; 2. The displacement effect of the wages fund theory; 3. The role of the state in the labour market: i.e. social insecurity; 4. Women and The Poor Law; 5. Women's work at the core of the labour market; 6. The supply of labour as process of social reproduction; Notes; Bibliography.

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