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Example sentences for "human labour"

  • Machinery in Relation to the Character of Human Labour.

  • So long, however, as human labour continues to co-operate with machinery, certain elements of thought and spontaneity adhere to it.

  • The proof of this is the immense amount of human labour which it sets in motion.

  • This is the value of the coal as it lies under the soil, still virgin, and untouched by human labour.

  • Yet the concept of constant capital involves more than this: it expresses the function of the means of production in the process of human labour, quite independently of all its historical or social forms.

  • The process in question does not only take place in capitalist production; it is the general foundation of human labour, quite independent of the historical form of society.

  • By virtue of its general character, as being expenditure of human labour-power in the abstract, spinning adds a new value to the values of cotton and spindle.

  • All labour is the expenditure of human labour-power in a special form and with a definite aim, and in this, its character of concrete useful labour, it produces use-values.

  • It is the measure of value inasmuch as it is the socially recognised incarnation, of human labour; it is the standard of price inasmuch as it is a fixed weight of metal.

  • The word 'natural' means effected by heaven itself and not made by human labour.

  • We pay more for wheat, because the production of it costs a greater amount of human labour.

  • We do not pay for it, nevertheless; because nature furnishes it to us without the aid of human labour.

  • The only indispensable form of capital--vital capital--cannot be produced by human labour.

  • In nature's economy, no human labour is altogether lost.

  • She furnishes, with the help of human labour, the wool that we spin and the food that we eat.

  • The greater part of human labour is occupied in the direct production of the materials for human food.

  • Every mechanical invention which lessens the necessity for rough, untrained, muscular, human labour, diminishes also the social demand upon woman as the producer in large masses of such labourers.

  • Something that is entirely new has entered into the field of human labour, and left nothing as it was.

  • Under the name of machinery we here include everything which on the one hand is not a free gift of nature, but the outcome of human effort, and on the other hand is intended to increase the productiveness of human labour.

  • He restored the ancient wisdom of our ancestors, and also clearly and irrefutably demonstrated what they had only instinctively recognised--namely, that the increase of wealth depends upon the productiveness of human labour.

  • The horse itself and its keep may be cheap enough; but, as human labour is the dearest thing in Freeland, I cannot understand how any Freeland income can support the cost of a groom.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    human action; human activities; human anatomy; human association; human beauty; human beings; human conduct; human embryo; human energy; human form; human frailty; human government; human heart; human hearts; human institutions; human invention; human knowledge; human laws; human learning; human misery; human prudence; human sacrifice; human welfare; human will; human work; not want