Editing Labour power (section)

==Definition==
[[Karl Marx]] introduces the concept in chapter 6 of the first volume of ''[[Das Kapital|Capital]]'', as follows: 
:"By labour-power or capacity for labour is to be understood the aggregate of those mental and physical capabilities existing in a human being, which he exercises whenever he produces a [[use-value]] of any description."<ref name="karlmarx">{{cite web|url=http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch06.htm|title=Economic Manuscripts: Capital Vol. I - Chapter Six|author=Karl Marx|work=marxists.org}}</ref>
He adds further on that:
:"Labour-power, however, becomes a reality only by its exercise; it sets itself in action only by working. But thereby a definite quantity of human muscle, nerve. brain, &c., is wasted, and these require to be restored."<ref name="karlmarx"/>

Another explanation of labour-power can be found in the introduction and second chapter of Marx's ''[[Wage Labour and Capital]]'' (1847).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/index.htm|title=Wage Labour and Capital|author=Karl Marx|work=marxists.org}}</ref> Marx also provided a short exposition of labour power in ''[[Value, Price and Profit]]'' (1865).<ref>{{Cite book|date=21 July 2018|title=Capital, Volume 1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DJloDwAAQBAJ&q=Labour+power+by+Karl+Marx|isbn=9781387962600|last1=Marx|first1=Karl}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Ranganayakamma|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V_XHDwAAQBAJ&q=Labour+power+by+Karl+Marx|title=An Introduction to Marx's 'Capital': Volume 1|publisher=Sweet Home Publications|language=en}}</ref>