%0 Journal Article %T Abstract Labour in a Model of Joint Production %A Fujimoto %A Takao %A Ekuni %A Fumiko %J Pol¨ªtica y cultura %D 2011 %I Universidad Aut¨®noma Metropolitana %X this paper presents a new mathematical method for constructing abstract labour as conceived by karl marx, in a general input-output model with joint production and heterogeneous labour. a brief history of previous efforts to define and compose abstract labour using input-output models is also described. a numerical example is given to show how our method works in a concrete way. %K abstract labour %K eigenvalue %K eigenvector %K heterogeneous labour %K kakutani fixed point theorem. %U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0188-77422011000100013&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en