Revisiting the Marxist Skilled Labour Debate

GASTÓN CALIGARIS & GUIDO STAROSTA

Historical Materialism

Brill Academic Publishers

Lugar: Leiden; Año: 2019 vol. 27 p. 55 - 91

1465-4466

This article offers an overview of Marx?s textual legacy on the subject the multiplied value-positing powers of skilled labour and undertakes a critical reconstruction of the history of the subsequent controversies over the so-called ?skilled labour reduction problem?. The critical examination of the different Marxist responses to the objections put forward by critics shows that they fail to develop a solution that is consistent with the foundations of Marx?s value-theory. Thus, the article finally offers an alternative solution grounded in the Marxian analysis of the determinations of the value as laid out in Capital.