著者

安田均著

出版者

社会思想社

巻号頁・発行日

1990

著者

安田 均

出版者

経済理論学会

雑誌

季刊経済理論 (ISSN:18825184)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.49, no.4, pp.67-77, 2013-01-20 (Released:2017-04-25)

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This paper examines labour in consumption, focusing on domestic labour activities that are not replaced by private or public services. The validity of the following three points will be demonstrated. First, domestic labour can be characterized as non-quantitative non-productive labour as opposed to quantitative productive labour by distinguishing the two oft-confused notions of labour, namely productive labour and value formation labour. Second, relativization of the notion of productive labour enables us to define domestic labour as work closely linked to consumption, without reformulating the intrinsic definition of labour or distinguishing domestic labour from labour in general as 'non-work'. Third, labour in consumption, namely, nonproductive labour, should be characterized through its non-quantitativeness, self-purposiveness, and complementarity.