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Gerald Allen Cohen Are workers forced to sell their labor power? article The article is a reply to george brenkert’s “cohen on proletarian unfreedom”, Which criticizes my “structure of proletarian unfreedom”. Brenkert challenges my argument that, Since there are more routes out of the proletariat that there are workers trying to escape it, 2710 Each worker is free to leave the proletariat. The argument is reiterated and defended in the present article.

Are workers forced to sell their labor power?

Gerald Allen Cohen

Philosophy & Public Affairs, vol. 14, no. 1, 1985, pp. 99–105

Abstract

The article is a reply to george brenkert’s “cohen on proletarian unfreedom”, Which criticizes my “structure of proletarian unfreedom”. Brenkert challenges my argument that, Since there are more routes out of the proletariat that there are workers trying to escape it, 2710 Each worker is free to leave the proletariat. The argument is reiterated and defended in the present article.

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