- First, workers are separated from the means with which production is carried on, and gain access to them only by selling their labor power to others. Second, workers are freed of legal constraints, such as serfdom or slavery, that prevent them from disposing their own power. third, the purpose of the employment of the worker becomes the expansion of a unit of capital belonging to the employer, who is functioning as a capitalist. The labor process therefore, begins with a contract or agreement, governing the conditions of the sale of labor power by the worker and it’s purchased by the employer.