Value, Free Labour and History

Authors

  • Henry Heller

Abstract

This paper reasserts the importance of free labour. Against those like Jairus Banaji and Marcel van den Linden who insist on the contemporary and historical importance of unfree labour and dismiss wage labour as another kind of unfree labour it insists on the ongoing importance and distinctiveness of free labour in the history of capitalism and hopes for socialism. Free labour is integral to a technologically progressive capitalism but also to the progress of consumption and political and cultural development.

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Published

2026-06-14

How to Cite

Heller, H. (2026). Value, Free Labour and History. Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research, 36(1). Retrieved from https://alternateroutes.ca/index.php/ar/article/view/22584

Issue

Vol. 36 No. 1 (2026): Unsettling Power, Rethinking Progress

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Interventions

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