AskProfWolff: Why Marx Differentiates "Productive" from "Unproductive Labor" (Patreon)

AskProfWolff: Why Marx Differentiates "Productive" from "Unproductive Labor"

Learn more about Prof Wolff's new book, The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself. Available now! www.democracyatwork.info/books Submit your own question to Prof. Wolff on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/economicupdate/community. AskProfWolff is a @Democracy At Work production. We are committed to providing these videos to you free of ads. Please consider supporting us on Patreon.com/economicupdate. Become a part of the growing Patreon community and gain access to exclusive patron-only content, along with the ability to ask Prof. Wolff questions like this one! Your support also helps keep this content free to the public. Spreading Prof. Wolff's message is more important than ever. Help us continue to make this possible. A Patron of Economic Update asks: "You mention three types of "actors" within the modern U.S. economy: productive, unproductive, and capitalist. Are unproductive workers those in fields such as information technology, business analysis, the law, doctors and other "white collar" or "grey collar", non-service fields? I assume productive workers are defined as those who engage in manual, or service, labor or work in manufacturing." Follow Wolff ONLINE: Web: http://www.rdwolff.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/economicupdate Twitter: http://twitter.com/profwolff Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/EconomicUpdate http://www.facebook.com/RichardDWolff http://www.facebook.com/DemocracyatWrk Subscribe to the EU podcast: http://economicupdate.libsyn.com Shop for EU merchandise: https://democracy-at-work-shop.myshopify.com/