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| Question 68: What is the difference between labor and labor power? |
| [52] Sitka: Labor and Labor Power Labor in its most basic form is the individual human act of producing a part of a commodity. Put this together with the time and skill involved in producing this commodity and you have a unit of labor power. Each unit of human labor no matter what the task, the unit of labor is the same. |
| In each society labor power could be defined differently. Each society has its own concept of the time and skill needed to produce a commodity. Labor Power would then be defined as the average unit of the time and skill needed for the individual unit of labor. The value of a commodity produced in a society is determined by the labor power behind that specific commodity. |
| Hans: You are giving a wrong answer after three others have already posted right answers to the class ([7], [30], and [50]). You are confusing labor power with abstract labor and with socially necessary labor time. All these concepts are related, but they are different. |
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