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Introduction
Abstract
Historically our understanding of the labour process in capitalist societies has been identified with manual labour, the direct production of physical artifacts for sale on the market. In other words, the labour process is commonly seen as necessitating the production of material goods through work activities that are predominantly manual or physical in character. The title of this book may therefore appear something of a misnomer, a contradiction in terms. We can dispel this misconception by briefly examining the reality and appearance of productive work, and the way cultural and common-sense notions of work disguise its nature in modern society.
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