In those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, labour power is tradable as a commodity and, as such, not a natural good or human capacity, but rather a socially mediated and constituted relation. The project “Labour Power Plant” operates on the fictitious assumption that the everyday, all-pervasive, seemingly natural and therefore invisible micro-politics present in society do in fact not exist. In other words, that society is by itself unable to provide for the human capital on which it depends. Instead, the production of abstract workers is outsourced into a dedicated “labour power plant” – an institution that equips people with the general capacities that make them fit for the demands of the labour market. Labour Power Plant – a success story of the past, the present and the future describes the story of the institution from industrialization to today, its reaction to the labour movement, and new trends in corporate governance.

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劳动电厂

在资本主义生产方式盛行的那些社会中，劳动力是作为一种商品进行贸易的，因此，不是自然产品或人类的能力，而是社会介导和构成的关系。“劳动发电厂”项目是在一个虚拟的假设下运作的，即事实上不存在每天都存在的，无处不在的，看似自然的，因此无形的社会微观政治。换句话说，社会本身无法提供它所依赖的人力资本。取而代之的是，将抽象工人的生产外包给专用的“劳动力发电厂”，该机构为人们提供使他们适应劳动力市场需求的一般能力。劳工电厂–过去的成功故事，