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Reserve army of labour

Index Reserve army of labour

Reserve army of labour is a concept in Karl Marx's critique of political economy. [1]

51 relations: A fair day's wage for a fair day's work, Alexander Cockburn, An Essay on the Principle of Population, Éric Zemmour, Capital, Volume I, Capitalism, Capitalist mode of production (Marxist theory), Criticism of capitalism, Criticisms of welfare, Economic inequality, Employment, Full employment, Henryk Grossman, History of economic thought, Human overpopulation, Index of sociology articles, Inflation, Job guarantee, Labor army, Labor army (disambiguation), Labour power, List of economic crises, Lumpenproletariat, Malthusian catastrophe, Marx's theory of history, Marxian economics, Matale rebellion, Natural rate of unemployment, Overproduction, Pandora's Box (TV series), Pauperism, Power (social and political), Primitive accumulation of capital, Redistribution of income and wealth, Relations of production, Reproduction (economics), Social democracy, Sri Lankan independence movement, Structural unemployment, Surplus labour, Swedish Social Democratic Party, Tendency of the rate of profit to fall, The Grapes of Wrath, Underclass, Unemployment, Unemployment benefits, Unemployment in the United Kingdom, United Kingdom labour law, Wage labour, Wage slavery, ..., Working class. Expand index (1 more) »

A fair day's wage for a fair day's work

A fair day's wage for a fair day's work is an objective of the labor movement, trade unions and other workers' groups, to increase pay, and adopt reasonable hours of work.

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Alexander Cockburn

Alexander Claud Cockburn (6 June 1941 – 21 July 2012) was an Irish-American political journalist and writer.

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An Essay on the Principle of Population

The book An Essay on the Principle of Population was first published anonymously in 1798, but the author was soon identified as Thomas Robert Malthus.

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Éric Zemmour

Éric Justin Léon Zemmour (born 31 August 1958) is a French writer and political journalist.

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Capital, Volume I

Capital.

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Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system based upon private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

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Capitalist mode of production (Marxist theory)

In Karl Marx's critique of political economy and subsequent Marxian analyses, the capitalist mode of production refers to the systems of organizing production and distribution within capitalist societies.

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Criticism of capitalism

Criticism of capitalism ranges from expressing disagreement with the principles of capitalism in its entirety to expressing disagreement with particular outcomes of capitalism.

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Criticisms of welfare

The modern welfare state has been criticized on economic and moral grounds from all ends of the political spectrum.

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Economic inequality

Economic inequality is the difference found in various measures of economic well-being among individuals in a group, among groups in a population, or among countries.

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Employment

Employment is a relationship between two parties, usually based on a contract where work is paid for, where one party, which may be a corporation, for profit, not-for-profit organization, co-operative or other entity is the employer and the other is the employee.

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Full employment

Full employment means that everyone who wants a job have all the hours of work they need on "fair wages".

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Henryk Grossman

Henryk Grossman (alternative spelling: Henryk Grossmann; 14 April 1881 – 24 November 1950) was an economist, historian, and revolutionary from Galicia.

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History of economic thought

The history of economic thought deals with different thinkers and theories in the subject that became political economy and economics, from the ancient world to the present day in the 21st Century.

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Human overpopulation

Human overpopulation (or population overshoot) occurs when the ecological footprint of a human population in a specific geographical location exceeds the carrying capacity of the place occupied by that group.

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Index of sociology articles

This is an index of sociology articles.

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Inflation

In economics, inflation is a sustained increase in price level of goods and services in an economy over a period of time.

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Job guarantee

A job guarantee (JG) is an economic policy proposal aimed at providing a sustainable solution to the dual problems of inflation and unemployment.

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Labor army

The notion of the Labor army (трудовая армия, трудармия) was introduced in Soviet Russia during the Russian Civil War in 1920.

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Labor army (disambiguation)

Labor army is a term used in 1920 to describe Soviet soldiers who were moved from military jobs to physical labor jobs.

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Labour power

Labour power (in German: Arbeitskraft; in French: force de travail) is a key concept used by Karl Marx in his critique of capitalist political economy.

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List of economic crises

List of economic crises and depressions.

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Lumpenproletariat

Lumpenproletariat is a term used primarily by Marxist theorists to describe the underclass devoid of class consciousness.

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Malthusian catastrophe

A Malthusian catastrophe (also known as Malthusian check or Malthusian spectre) is a prediction of a forced return to subsistence-level conditions once population growth has outpaced agricultural production - that there will be too many people and not enough food.

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Marx's theory of history

The Marxist theory of historical materialism sees human society as fundamentally determined at any given time by the material conditions—in other words, the relationships which people have with each other in order to fulfill basic needs such as feeding, clothing, and housing themselves and their families.

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Marxian economics

Marxian economics, or the Marxian school of economics, refers to a school of economic thought tracing its foundations to the critique of classical political economy first expounded upon by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

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Matale rebellion

The Matale rebellion, also known as the Rebellion of 1848, took place in Ceylon against the British colonial government under Governor Lord Torrington, 7th Viscount Torrington.

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Natural rate of unemployment

The natural rate of unemployment is the name that was given to a key concept in the study of economic activity.

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Overproduction

In economics, overproduction, oversupply, excess of supply or glut refers to excess of supply over demand of products being offered to the market.

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Pandora's Box (TV series)

Pandora's Box, subtitled A Fable From the Age of Science, is a BBC television documentary series by Adam Curtis looking at the consequences of political and technocratic rationalism.

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Pauperism

Pauperism (Lat. pauper, poor) is a term meaning poverty or generally the state of being poor, but in English usage particularly the condition of being a "pauper", i.e. in receipt of relief administered under the English Poor Laws.

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Power (social and political)

In social science and politics, power is the ability to influence or outright control the behaviour of people.

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Primitive accumulation of capital

In Marxist economics and preceding theories,Perelman, p. 25 (ch. 2) the problem of primitive accumulation (also called previous accumulation, original accumulation) of capital concerns the origin of capital, and therefore of how class distinctions between possessors and non-possessors came to be.

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Redistribution of income and wealth

Redistribution of income and redistribution of wealth are respectively the transfer of income and of wealth (including physical property) from some individuals to others by means of a social mechanism such as taxation, charity, welfare, public services, land reform, monetary policies, confiscation, divorce or tort law.

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Relations of production

Relations of production (German: Produktionsverhältnisse) is a concept frequently used by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in their theory of historical materialism and in Das Kapital.

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Reproduction (economics)

In Marxian economics, economic reproduction refers to recurrent (or cyclical) processes.

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Social democracy

Social democracy is a political, social and economic ideology that supports economic and social interventions to promote social justice within the framework of a liberal democratic polity and capitalist economy.

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Sri Lankan independence movement

The Sri Lankan independence movement was a peaceful political movement which aimed at achieving independence and self-rule for Sri Lanka, then Ceylon, from the British Empire.

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Structural unemployment

Structural unemployment is a form of unemployment caused by a mismatch between the skills that workers in the economy can offer, and the skills demanded of workers by employers (also known as the skills gap).

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Surplus labour

Surplus labour (German: Mehrarbeit) is a concept used by Karl Marx in his critique of political economy.

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Swedish Social Democratic Party

The Swedish Social Democratic Party (Sveriges socialdemokratiska arbetareparti, SAP; literally, "Social Democratic Workers' Party of Sweden"), contesting elections as the Arbetarepartiet–Socialdemokraterna ('The Workers' Party – The Social Democrats'), usually referred to just as the 'Social Democrats' (Socialdemokraterna); is the oldest and largest political party in Sweden.

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Tendency of the rate of profit to fall

The tendency of the rate of profit to fall (TRPF) is a hypothesis in economics and political economy, most famously expounded by Karl Marx in chapter 13 of Capital, Volume III.

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The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939.

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Underclass

The underclass is the segment of the population that occupies the lowest possible position in a class hierarchy, below the core body of the working class.

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Unemployment

Unemployment is the situation of actively looking for employment but not being currently employed.

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Unemployment benefits

Unemployment benefits (depending on the jurisdiction also called unemployment insurance or unemployment compensation) are payments made by the state or other authorized bodies to unemployed people.

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Unemployment in the United Kingdom

Unemployment in the United Kingdom is measured by the Office for National Statistics and in the three months to May 2017 the headline unemployment rate stood at 4.5%, or 1.49 million people.

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United Kingdom labour law

United Kingdom labour law regulates the relations between workers, employers and trade unions.

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Wage labour

Wage labour (also wage labor in American English) is the socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer, where the worker sells his or her labour under a formal or informal employment contract.

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Wage slavery

Wage slavery is a term used to draw an analogy between slavery and wage labor by focusing on similarities between owning and renting a person.

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Working class

The working class (also labouring class) are the people employed for wages, especially in manual-labour occupations and industrial work.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_army_of_labour

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