Thomas Hodgskin: Labour

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“Slave-owners and rich men, among a crowd of slave-descended famishing labourers, lead probably a more anxious and toilsome life in protecting their property, and in enforcing obedience to their orders, than the slaves whose labour they extort.”

Thomas Hodgskin

Source: Popular Political Economy: Four lectures delivered at the London Mechanics Institution (1827), p. 31

“The skill and the art of the labourer have been overlooked, and he has been vilified; while the work of his hands has been worshiped.”

Thomas Hodgskin

Source: Labour Defended against the Claims of Capital (1825), p. 66

“The labourers are still more unfortunate in being descended from bondsmen and serfs. Personal slavery or villanage formerly existed in Britain, and all the living labourers still suffer from the bondage of their ancestors.”

Thomas Hodgskin

Source: Labour Defended against the Claims of Capital (1825), p. 22

“The simple means of making the race frugal is to supply the wants of no man and to leave every man the produce of his own labour.”

Thomas Hodgskin

Source: Travels in the North of Germany (1820), p. 86, Vol. 2