All labour is directed towards producing some effect.

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.

The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance.

The prices of raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labour cost of producing them.

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.

And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.