Abstract
The modern labour defined by the mode of “Capitalism” requires the existence of labour-force which is free and independent of others, but the most important matter is impossible to divide it from its owner. Therefore, we must study not only the material relations of “capital-labour-force” but also the personal relations of “capitalist-labourer”.
The former implies labour-force and means of production where capital transforms, the latter implies class problems, composed the relation of “capitalist class-working class”, labour movement, and the hierarchic structure defined by the difference of the quality of labour-force. From this point of view, the matter is the growth of two classes from “an sich” to “fürsich” produced by the training of labour-force and trade union. And, that structure inside the working class is reproduced through generations. By this thing on the labour-market, capital can maintain its usual production. It is an approach that regards the heterogeneity or difference rather than homogeneity or similarity in our society.
Now, it is “labour-relations” implying wage, working-hours, and labourer-management that combines material-personal double relations in “wage-labour”. It combines production processes and life processes and defines the reproduction of labour-force.
Social theory of labour is composed as theory of labour-relations which considers labour as relations of person-person and person-nature, but the aim of this paper is to discuss the fundamental categories in the research on “wage-labour”.
