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compound labour (uncountable)

  1. Skilled labour involving complex tasks and producing more value than simple labour.
    • 2005, Hayashi Hiroyoshi, Marx's Labor Theory of Value: A Defense, page 111:
      In connection with this, Engels says the following: How then are we to solve the whole important question of the higher wages paid for compound labor?

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