ENGL 200 D: Reading Literature: Literature in the Marketplace

I have decided to answer the question “what makes labor value difficult to establish?” for Major paper one.  I think this question has a lot of depth to it and is very broad so the answer to it does not have to be a cliché response. I would like to take on the point of view that labor value is difficult to establish because there are many aspects of labor that are done in different fashions, even if it’s the same task. There is some labor that can be completed by humans, and then there is some that machines are able to do. The difficulty level fluctuates depending on who is performing the task, thus making the value of the work increase or decrease as well.

I am going to use Collier as well as Duck together to argue this point; I feel that although they have opposing arguments, they together can support my view on labor as a whole.  In addition to those two readings, I would like to incorporate the reading “Money” by Stein, because the value of money, as well as the value of the work has to be established to truly understand the value of the labor that is being done. So the points that I want to argue are… 1) That labor value is difficult to establish because the difficulty labor of that work changes depending on who is performing the task, whether it be man, woman, machine, or even animals, making the value change. And 2) I would also like to argue that the value of the money, or item of value being used to pay for that labor makes it difficult to determine the value of labor.