The Value of Reproductive Labor

This article examines labor from a different direction to consider how people value their labor and their economic activities positively, even when they acknowledge that they are being exploited and otherwise experiencing poor conditions while working. Specifically, it examines the relationship betw...

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Exploitation
Foreign labor
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Labor market
Labor theory of value
Manual workers
Poverty
Quality of work
Wage rates
Wages & salaries
Working conditions
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