"Although the bourgeoisie was originally very thrifty, but by the growing productivity of capital i.e. the productivity of the laborers, it imitates the retainer system of the feudal lords. According to the latest report on the factories, 1861 or 1862, the total number of persons, managers included, employed in the factories properly so called in the United Kingdom, was only 775,000, while the number of female servants in England alone amounted to one million. What a convenient arrangement it is that makes a factory girl to sweat 12 hours in a factory, so that the factory proprietor, with a part of her unpaid labor [the surplus value], can take into his personal service her sister as a maid, her brother as a groom and her cousin as a soldier or policeman."

(German Original: Welche schöne Einrichtung, die ein Fabrikmädchen 12 Stunden in der Fabrik schwitzen lässt, damit der Fabrikherr mit einem Teil ihrer unbezahlten Arbeit ihre Schwester als Magt, ihren Bruder als groom und ihren Vetter als Soldat oder Polizist in seinen persönlichen Dienst nehmen kann!)

from:
Theories Of Surplus Value - Chapter 4 (Audiobook)
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