Some thoughts on Contract labour system

Dear Friends,

Did you know that the present exploitative contract labour system was visualized long ago by thinkers like Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Karl Marx. They had viewed that with the advancement of age, novel methods would be adopted by the Capitalist class to increase the surplus value of labour, i.e., unpaid labour for profit. The motto of the Capitalist class has always been to reduce the gap between "necessary labour" (Labour paid for meant to support self and family of the worker) and "potential labour" (Maximum bodily strength of the worker). As Marx (1844)  wrote in his Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, "the worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and range. The worker becomes an ever cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates. With the increasing value of the world of things proceeds in direct proportion to the devaluation of the world of men. Labor produces not only commodities; it produces itself and the worker as a commodity -- and does so in the proportion in which it produces commodities generally."  For Marx, the gigantic increase in wealth was mainly due to the competitive striving to obtain maximum surplus-value from the employment of labor, resulting in an equally gigantic increase of productivity and capital resources. So friends, Contract labour system  is a modern tool in this 21st century for exploitation of labour. This system has found support among the employers as it strikes at any effort for collectivization of workers while at the same time ensuring productivity and division of labour.