Subject of work
Under working object after the REFA all materials, goods, information, media etc. understood definition, within the meaning of the work object in a work system are changed in their state, their shape or their position.
Meaning of the term in Marxism
The term work object is given an expanded social meaning in the book Das Kapital by Karl Marx .
According to this understanding, the general subject of work was initially the earth. A distinction was also made between the objects of work given by nature (ores, crude oil, natural gas, coal, wood, etc.), which man gained directly from the nature surrounding him (the soil, the water, the forest), and the objects of work that had already been worked on (the wood in the sawmill, the ore in the iron and steel works, the oil in the processing plant etc.).
The latter were also referred to as raw material or raw materials, semi-finished products, etc. The objects of work together with the work equipment formed the means of production . In the area of material production, they belonged to the production fund , namely to the production circulation fund .
With the development of social production, science and technology, the amount of objects of work gained by society increased, and new, useful properties of the objects of work were discovered. At the same time, this development and the social division of labor meant that more end products could be manufactured from the same amount of work items .
Under the conditions of the scientific and technical upheaval in the production process, the objects of work in the system of the productive forces also assumed greater importance.
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- ↑ REFA Association for Work Studies and Business Organization e. V. (Hrsg.): Methodology of the company organization: Lexicon of the company organization . Munich: Carl-Hanser, 1993. - ISBN 3-446-17523-7 . Page 20.
- ↑ "The worker adds new value to the object of work by adding a certain amount of work, apart from the specific content, purpose and technical character of his work".