Creative Labor: Distinctive Aspects, Dynamics of Development and Characteristics of System Transformation

Based on the theory of noonomy developed by S. D. Bodrunov, the author covers the possibilities of its use in studying a range of issues addressed under the Marxist paradigm, in particular when it comes to creative, universal labor. The author demonstrates an abiding role of labor in the economic development. The paper reveals changes of the creative worker place, role and value caused by modern technological transformations. The author delves into the need of addressing the social utility of creative labor and importance of studying its value in use. The paper presents the author's vision of the dynamics of the new forms of personal production factor development in a context of increasing importance of knowledge and competence.
It is known that the labor subject is gradually transformed from a tool for material assets creation into the goal and condition of its own enlarged reproduction and qualitative internal improvement as the society shifts to a higher stage of technological development. As a result, the worker that mostly operates a highly intelligent creative element in his activity starts restructuring the existing relations system with the capital owner.
This leads to the assumption that the new form of participation allows a creative worker to get back the self-organization property and self-sufficiency of the labor process which he had lost meanwhile restoring an almost equal negotiation power in course of interaction with capital. This gives grounds for firm background for the situation when the creative labor unit, on the one hand, and the capital owner, on the other, start to interact as partners and coworkers. But because the hired labor of the creative worker still prevails in the framework of the capitalist market system, it is at least premature to debate about the rapid overcoming of the economic dependence of labor on capital.

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