What is the Marxist thought on hiring contract labor? For instance, say you are a self employed contractor and you hire contract labor to do something you cannot do. Is this exploitation?
What is the Marxist thought on hiring contract labor? For instance, say you are a self employed contractor and you hire contract labor to do something you cannot do. Is this exploitation?
Exploitation is a question of labor value. I’d expect that the answer is usually yes (because hiring them is thereby directly profitable), but it’s just a question of how much they are compensated versus how much labor value you receive from them.
I was more thinking along the lines of hiring them to do a service for you ie graphic design or painting a room
As I said, it’s a value issue rather than a question of the specific job or other aspects of the arrangement. If you pay them as much as the value they are giving you, then it’s not exploitation.