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Capital Vol. 1

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Karl Marx's work featuring Chapter 10 on the inhumane treatment of workers and extreme working hours, including the story of Mary Anne Walkley who died after working 26.5 hours straight.

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"So far this is the most emotional part of the Capital. It's quite shocking at what lengths capitalists went to maximize working hours, how inhumanly the workers were treated. One example from this chapter Mary Anne Walkley, 20 years of age, employed in a highly-respectable dressmaking establishment,"
Capital Vol.1 Ch. 10 - squeezing life out of worker · u/FaceObvious5668 · ↑71 · 2025-09-24
"Mary Anne Walkley, 20 years of age, employed in a highly-respectable dressmaking establishment, exploited by a lady with the pleasant name of Elise... Mary Anne Walkley had worked without intermission for 26½ hours, with 60 other girls, 30 in one room"
Capital Vol.1 Ch. 10 - squeezing life out of worker · u/FaceObvious5668 · ↑71 · 2025-09-24
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