id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ilmwzb62tbbibdjxtec3bu3ngq John Buschman Between Neoliberalism and Identity Politics: Academic Librarianship, Democracy and November 8, 2016 2018 15 .pdf application/pdf 7381 577 50 Keywords: capitalism, labour, libraries, Marxism, neoliberalism, value Marx above, I will argue that the crisis of librarianship is fundamentally due to library real subsumption of labour to capital, with examples from within librarianship. transformation as a process of subsumption of labour under capital, but for now it is For Marx, use-value is the product of particular kinds of labour (knitting, cooking, welding, etc.), while exchange-value is the product of a universalized, abstract labour. increase the productivity of labour, so that the value required to repay the worker is made up Marx's analysis of the formal and real subsumption of labour under capital. A merely formal subsumption of labour under capital sufces for the production of extract relative surplus-value by increasing the productivity of labour. within library work; the automation of process is seen as a core means of increasing labour alongside the subsumption of library labour under capitalist conditions of production. ./cache/work_ilmwzb62tbbibdjxtec3bu3ngq.pdf ./txt/work_ilmwzb62tbbibdjxtec3bu3ngq.txt