compound labour

noun

Skilled labour involving complex tasks and producing more value than simple labour.

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nouncompound labour (uncountable)

alternative compound labor

  1. uncountableSkilled labour involving complex tasks and producing more value than simple labour.

    In connection with this, Engels says the following: How then are we to solve the whole important question of the higher wages paid for compound labor?

    2005, Hayashi Hiroyoshi, Marx's Labor Theory of Value: A Defense, page 111
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