An idea from Das Kapital, Volume I

In June 1863 a London dressmaker named Mary Anne Walkley, 20 years old, died of overwork. She had averaged 16½ hours a day, and in the busy season often worked 30 hours without a break. The newspapers ran it under the heading of death from simple over-work.

From Das Kapital, Volume I by Karl Marx

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