Emancipation of labor as a fundamental trend in the development of labor relations
Abstract. This article reveals the content of the labor emancipation process currently taking place in the developed world and started several decades ago, proves the fundamental nature of this process, which suggests that it will lead to the victory of free (self-employed) labor over forced (wage) labor and further development of the former. In order to substantiate the sustainable nature of the labor emancipation process, the article provides its economic justification, shows that it is a manifestation in the field of labor relations of a more general process of liberation from capitalist exploitation of the industrial relations entire system that has been taking place in the world for several decades. It is shown that the present liberation of industrial relations, including labor relations, is a logical phase of the historical cycle of capitalist-self-employed transformation of industrial relations, which replaced the process of capitalist enslavement of industrial relations, including labor relations, that had been going on for several centuries. The article demonstrates that the current cycle of capitalist-self-employed transformation of industrial relations is a manifestation of a more general trend, namely, the general economic law, i.e. the law passing through the entire economic history, according to which the history of economic life is the whole sequence of such cycles.
Keywords: emancipation of labor, enslavement of labor, capitalist exploitation, industrial relations, resource supply, cycle of capitalist-self-employed transformation.
Hightlightts:
- the process of labor emancipation is the process of returning free labor functions to workers, taken from them by capitalists during the process of enslavement of labor, it proceeds both explicitly and implicitly -in the form of labor emancipation under a traditional employment contract;
- the process of labor emancipation is beneficial to both capitalists and workers;
- the process of labor emancipation is a manifestation in the sphere of labor relations of a more general process of liberation from capitalist exploitation of the industrial relations entire system, the latter is a phase of the whole cycle of capitalist-self-employed transformation of industrial relations, and the current cycle is a manifestation of a general economic law, according to which the economic history is the sequence of such cycles.
Yuliya I. Budovich - Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia