Academic labor

producing value and producing struggles

David Harvie

pp. 231-247

in: Anthony Green, Glenn Rikowski, Helen Raduntz (eds), Renewing dialogues in Marxism and education, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Abstract

do not produce value, because there is no social mechanism for commensurating different labor activities, and so there is no way in which the time taken in such activities can be regarded as “socially necessary.” … Such labor is nonproductive; indeed, in value theory terms it does not count quantitatively at all. (Mohun, 1996: 38)