A Wage is a quantity of money paid for control over a worker's Labor-power over the a standard work day. It obscures the distinction between necessary and surplus labour and makes all labour appear to be paid.[1]
Wages can be measured in two ways: nominal and real. Nominal wages are the amount of money that the worker receives. Real wages are expressed in terms of the cost of consumer goods and can change when taxes or prices change even if the nominal wage stays constant.[2]
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References
- ↑ Karl Marx (1867). Capital: 'The Transformation of the Value (and Respective Price) of Labour-Power into Wages; Money'. Moscow: Progress Publishers.
- ↑ Political Economy: 'Wages; Nominal and Real Wages' (1954). [MIA]