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"[[Labour-power]] can appear upon the [[market]] as a [[commodity]], only if, and so far as, its possessor, the individual whose labour-power it is, offers it for sale, or sells it, as a commodity."
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== Distinguishing characteristics ==
 
Distinguishing characteristics of buying and selling labour power include:
 
* "[T]he labourer instead of being in the position to sell commodities in which his labour is incorporated, must be obliged to offer for sale as a commodity that very labour-power, which exists only in his living self."
 
* The free labourer confronts the owner of money on the market because he requires subsistence and lacks the [[means of production]].
 
== Quotes ==
 
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"The value of labour-power is determined, as in the case of every other commodity, by the labour-time necessary for the production, and consequently also the reproduction, of this special article. So far as it has value, it represents no more than a definite quantity of the average labour of society incorporated in it. Labour-power exists only as a capacity, or power of the living individual. Its production consequently pre-supposes his existence. Given the individual, the production of labour-power consists in his reproduction of himself or his maintenance.
 
For his maintenance he requires a given quantity of the means of subsistence. Therefore the labour-time requisite for the production of labour-power reduces itself to that necessary for the production of those means of subsistence; in other words, the value of labour-power is the value of the means of subsistence necessary for the maintenance of the labourer. Labour-power, however, becomes a reality only by its exercise; it sets itself in action only by working." [Karl Marx, Capital Volume One, Chapter Six]
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== See also ==
 
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