Labor
Work, especially bodily toil, and its dignity, rewards and organisation.
Works to read
- The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, 1776 · Great Books
- Early Poems: A Boy's Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval by Robert Frost, 1913–1916
- NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. by Supreme Court of the United States, 1937
- Shirley by Charlotte Brontë, 1849
- Lochner v. New York by Supreme Court of the United States, 1905
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber, 1905
- Centesimus Annus by John Paul II, 1991
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes, 1936 · Great Books
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1962 (Russian; English trans. 1963)
- The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762 · Great Books
- Animal Farm by George Orwell, 1945 · Great Books
- The Portable Faulkner by William Faulkner, 1946 (ed. Malcolm Cowley) · Great Books
Passages
From the texts
The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.
— Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
The quantity of labour, however, is measured by its duration, and labour-time in its turn finds its standard in weeks, days, and hours.
— Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I
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