This natural birth gives a man entrance into much, and for ever determines much, that has important bearings on his person, character, and destiny.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
Marx answers, Certainly not, for the time of labour which determines value is not the time actually taken, but the time required in existing social conditions to produce that particular kind of commodity-the time taken by labour of average efficiency, using the means which the age affords-in short, what he calls the socially necessary time of labour.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
In consequence of these changes the labourer is now treated as a commodity, and the rate of his wages settled by the same law that determines the price of every other commodity-the cost of its production; and the employer is always able to press wages down to the least figure which the labourer will take rather than starve.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae