Title: A New Probe into the Wage Issue in Contemporary Society
Abstract:In contemporary society,wages are the price of labor.However,this is only a general description.In fact,for different ownership forms and under different social systems,the problem of wages should be ...In contemporary society,wages are the price of labor.However,this is only a general description.In fact,for different ownership forms and under different social systems,the problem of wages should be explained separately.The essence of socialism is the relationship of exchange between the equal labors,it is reasonable to summarize the wages in the socialist public economic system as the price of labor.It is not difficult to show and understand this point,but the real difficulty here is to explain the wage issues of China's private economy and of the Western developed countries;this is also the focus of the differences of academic opinions.We believe that China’s private economy exists in a socialist environment,it is different from that in the capitalist society,and the contemporary capitalist society(the post-industrial phase) is also different from the early capitalist society(the large-scale industrial phase),therefore it is not correct to regard the wages here as the price of labor.A new definition should be made according to the new realities.In theory,the most difficult problem in indicating the wages as the price of labor is that to indicate the price of labor,one has to explain the value of labor;while to explain the value of labor will result in tautological problems.Therefore,only by solving this problem can the labor value and labor price be further explained,so as to reveal the nature of the wages in contemporary society.Read More
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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