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Quotation from Capital, Volume I by Karl Marx
“It quenches only in a slight degree the vampire thirst for the living blood of labour.”
Capital, Volume I, Chapter X: The working day, trans. Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling (1887), ed. Frederick Engels; rev. Ernest Untermann (Kerr, 1906)
From Chapter X on the working day, describing night work and relays as means of extending the hours during which capital can employ labour.
Citation: "It quenches only in a slight degree the vampire thirst for the living blood of labour." — Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapter X: The working day, trans. Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling (1887), ed. Frederick Engels; rev. Ernest Untermann (Kerr, 1906). (id marx-capital-volume-i-q4)
