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.
About the Author
Yu. I. Budovich
Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Yuliya I. Budovich
Doctor of Economics, Professor, Professor of the Department of Economic Theory, Faculty of International Economic Relations
Moscow
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