We have till now supposed that the working day has given limits. The working day, however, has, by itself, no constant limits. It is the constant tendency of capital to stretch it to its utmost physically possible length, because in the same degree surplus labour, and consequently the profit resulting therefrom, will be increased.
Value and Labour from Value, Price and Profit, 1865, The Portable Karl Marx, p. 421
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