ABSTRACT
The economic definition of the concept of labor as purposive activity presupposes and includes man's interest in the benefit which he derives from his labor. The methods and proportions of remuneration are conditioned by the given level of general development of a society, both in the economico-technical and–even more–the socio-economic sense. With the capitalist mode of production a relation has been created between the producer and the product of his own labor in which he loses his personal interest in how much the product will cost and what its quality will be like. In proportion as the capitalist system expanded, and the resistance of working class grew in strength, efforts were exerted to make the worker interested in producing more and better, not only by external pressure but also by means of remuneration for the work performed. The internal contradictions of capitalist relations inevitably generate a certain resistance on the part of immediate producers against increasing the productivity of labor.
