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The Cultural Logic Of Work

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Name: Ekansha Khanduja Roll No. : 08 Course: M.A. in DPPP – 1 Review of, The Cultural Logic of Work: Explaining Labour Deployment and Piece-Rate Contracts in Matar Taluka , Gujarat- Parts 1 and 2 -V. Gidwani Word Count:1401 Objective: The purpose of this two-part essay is to analyse the surge in agricultural …show more content…

NIE and MPE both treat power as a positivist institution, thus emphasising seeing power as ‘bargaining power’ or relative ability of transactors to affect economic-outcome. However, marginalists (NIE) see demand and supply as the origin of power, while MPE owe it to unequal access to means of production that gives birth to state supported private property. Hence, individual and coalition power concept of NIE are starkly different from class bargaining power of MPE. Freedom for NIE is purely contractual, freedom in pursuit of self-interest as a sovereign actor. MPE considers freedom as freedom from drudgery and alienation. Hence while MPE views exploitation as extraction of surplus value, NIE sees exploitation as payment below the value of marginal product. Though they both lay very little emphasis on culture, NIE puts it in the truncated part of preference set function or in utility function while MPE puts it in the ideological condition identified as ‘commodity fetishism’ (Marx. He says relation between people thus acquires a ‘phantom

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