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This book substantiates Marx’s idea of the appropriation of surplus value: “This the Waltham-Lowell system ‘included the then new idea, that corporations should have souls,’ as mill worker Harriet Robinson later described, which meant they should ‘exercise a paternal influence over the lives…

arcofadiver.bsky.social
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of their operatives.’” This just after quote from mill owner Nathan Appleton: [in the past,] “every penny [workers] could earn by constant labor barely sufficed for their subsistence,” Appleton wrote. “Now, 4 days labour supports them a week.”