In the labor-process, “labor is at first a process between man and nature, a process by which man mediates, regulates and controls the metabolism with nature through his own actions”, which covers three simple factors: “purposive activity, that is work itself, the object on which that work is performed, and the instruments of that work”. The labor-process is the process in which human activity, through the instruments of labor, effects an alteration in the material worked upon which was intended from the outset, thus labor is objectified, its object is processed and a product is created…
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