ABSTRACT

This study focuses on the relationship between the concept of immaterial labour, which has gained a significant importance in the literature of social sciences and in the field of social movements for the last twenty years; and the concepts of productive and unproductive labour which are the basic concepts of classical Marxism that is used in the analysis of the capitalist mode of production. Under the capitalist mode of production, production of exchange value is more precious than production of use value. The basic drive of the capitalist mode of production is making the cycle of self-expansion of capital permanent via the production of surplus value. Up from 1970s technological developments and intensification of occupational diversification led to the varying of productive labour activities as regards to the capitalist mode of production, and paved the way for the inclusion of different activities under productive labour. This study argues that certain activities which are classified under immaterial production can be considered within the scope of productive labour activities. It evaluates the current situation in relation to capital owners and labourers