Their endless prating about alienation and surplus labour was no match for a modern business reporter in search of a headline.

This was part of an argument about the source of surplus value in unpaid surplus labour.

By performing social surplus labour in a specific system of property relations, the labouring classes constantly reproduce the foundations of the social order.

It gives property owners the power to command the surplus labour of others.

Since they mostly lack control over the ruling market prices for their inputs and outputs, they try to increase productivity by every means at their disposal and maximise surplus labour.