We may illustrate it by the following example: Let us say the average cost of a day's subsistence is the product of five hours' social labor, which is represented by a wage of $1 per day.
And just as the value of other commodities is determined by the amount of social labornecessary on an average for their reproduction, so the value of labor-power is likewise determined.
The great merit of Ricardo lies in his development of the idea of social labor as against the simple concept of the labor of particular individuals, or sets of individuals.
If, therefore, I say that this clock is worth this piece of cloth and that they are both worth fifty marks, I say that in the clock, the cloth and the gold there is an equal amount of social labor.
But Socialist society produces no articles of merchandise, only articles of use and necessity, whose production requires a certain measure of social labor.
It is not necessary to go a round-about way in order to ascertain the amount of social labor crystallized in a given product.
As the embodiment of social labor, all commodities are the crystallization of the same substance.
The conditions of labor, which creates exchange value, as shown by the analysis of the latter, are social conditions of labor or conditions of social labor.
Social labor-time exists in these commodities in a latent state, so to say, and is first revealed in the process of exchange.
Under the given historical conditions, the first great division of social labor, by increasing the productivity of labor, adding to the wealth, and enlarging the field of productive activity, necessarily carried slavery in its wake.
The segregation of cattle raising tribes from the rest of the barbarians constitutes the first great division of social labor.
Manufacture on a large scale and the increasing productivity of social labor, until now a source of misery and oppression for the exploited classes, will then become a source of well-being and harmonious development for all.
The amount of social labor represented by a given product need not be determined in a round-about way; daily experience will show directly how much on an average will be required.
With monopoly they may carry it far above the standard set by the marginal productivity of social labor.
Their effects are all-pervasive, since they signify an increase in the productive power of that final unit of social labor on which wages generally depend.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "social labor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
