Labour-Saving Machines
Yes, they were made to 'save labour' (or, to speak more plainly, the lives of men) on one piece of work in order that it might be expended — I will say wasted — on another, probably useless, piece of work. Friend, all their devices for cheapening labour simply resulted in increasing the burden of labour.
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Context: Hammond judges the machinery of the nineteenth century.
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Source: Chapter XV