Karl Marx’s critique of political economy is oriented on an Aufhebung [a sublation] of classical political economy, for opening up the frontiers of its future as a science, aimed at self-emancipation of the wage-labourer. He divided his corresponding task into 6 topics: capital, landed property, wage-labour; the state, foreign trade and, world market. His output continues to be published within the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe[MEGA2] I-IV. Some of these materials are in the publication mode; the rest are either in the research mode or, are contained in his correspondences. Everything therein is open ended. One of the open issues here is that of wage-labour. Wage-labour and wageless-labour together constitute the universe of discourse of labour in the world as a whole. Both kinds of labour can be taken care of by time use studies. This paper proposes a research programme for extending the wage-labour related component of Marx’s critique of classical political economy, by utilizing the data generated on wageless-labour in gender driven and other forms of inequality revealing time use studies.
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