Productivity Growth and Social Justice

Productivity growth and Left-egalitarian causes are linked. While multifactor productivity has generally been treated with indifference or suspicion in the critical literature, largely because of its links with orthodox economics, productivity growth is intimately and materially connected to building more survivable and equitable futures. Improvements in productivity have made possible a variety of emancipatory social, economic, and political outcomes. Focusing solely on political action while ignoring productivity neglects important processes that contribute to the material basis for securing higher wages and improved living conditions.