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direct labor [də′rekt ′lā·bər] (industrial engineering) The labor or effort actually producing goods or services. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Here Marx describes, with notable ambiguity, both how collective human knowledge, objectified in science and technology, becomes a force of production whose power is 'out of all proportion to the direct labour time spent on [. As the proportions between indirect and direct labour inputs varies among different sectors, the technique of production determines the way in which the (uniform) rate of profit enters into the final price. The unit direct labour cost identified eight stages in the process: selection; searching; ordering; receiving; processing; cataloguing; end processing; discarding. |
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