This book will provide the first comprehensive and systematic overview of the attitudes of different schools of thought towards the issue of work time. Topics covered include assumptions on what determines the length of the work day and week, changes in production systems and their consequences...

"Friedrich Hayek was the 20th century's most significant free market theorist and over the course of his long career he maintained a sustained critique of the danger that state power poses to individual liberty. In rejecting much of the liberal tradition's concern for social justice and...

Introduction -- Capitalism and its origins: the theoretical context -- Marx's notion of capitalism: a synoptic account -- Marx's two approaches to the genesis of capitalism : the "productive forces - relations of production dialectic' -- Early forms of capitalism and wage labour : Lenin's...