ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how the production of the eikaiwa lesson relates to other moments in the circuit of capital: realisation and distribution. In focusing on the potential for contradiction and disjuncture between such moments which affect the flow of capital, the discussion focuses on how capital as value flows and is distributed unevenly throughout the eikaiwa school, and on how this distribution of value is seen by teachers. In exploring the disjuncture between this form of realisation and the production of lessons, the chapter discusses the non-consumption and non-production of the lesson commodity. Following this is a discussion of the winners and losers of the teacher market, whereby some teachers are better able to capitalise on their forms of Bourdieusian capital than others. The chapter concludes with a discussion of teachers’ accounts of an unjust distribution of value in relation to the discrepancy between the value distributed to them in the form of wages on the one hand, and the price at which lessons are sold on the other, in a calculation of a crude rate of surplus value production.
