Changes in the organization of the state, and labour within it, are giving new urgency to the need for a Marxist account of state labour. Traditionally, Marxist theory concerning the capitalist state and the labour process have remained disconnected. The article examines both these areas and attempts to extract elements from each to present a coherent account of state labour. The perspective developed argues for a strategy which connects state labour to the recipients of state services and transforms the state functions of control to ones of labour.
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