...improvements would produce their legitimate effect, that of abridging labor. Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened...imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they have...

...improvements would produce their legitimate effect, that of abridging labour. Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened...imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make large fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they...

...machinery is potentially effort-saving. But citing John Stuart Mill's contention that '[i]t is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being' (Marx [1867], 1977, p. 492), Marx argued that capitalists were able to use machinery as a powerful...

...expanded. After all, whether accurate or not, Mill also concluded and Marx quoted:166 "It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being." And as a compulsive reader of the Factory Inspectors Reports and other descriptions of the round of...

...enormously wealthy, but the mass of the population was sunk in dire poverty. It was "questionable," declared Mill, "if all the mechanical inventions yet made have...have enabled a greater population to live the same fife of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make large...

...intercourse, has, in all the most populous countries been attained ... Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being ... They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they have not yet begun to effect those great changes...

...name of progress. It was not society as a whole, but chiefly the middle classes. "It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened...imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make a fortune." "Just institutions" were needed so that the conquests made from the...

...this element in the standard of living that JS Mill was able to say that "hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being." The accepted standard of expenditure in the community or in the class to which a person belongs largely...

...the paid portion of living labour. . .'.2t Commenting on JS Mill's remark that 'It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being', Marx observes that this is 'by no means the aim of the capitalist applications of machinery. Like every...

...this element in the standard of living that JS Mill was able to say that 'hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.' It is perhaps the further development of this process that makes the rich societies of the late twentieth...