Working on a panel for Capital about labor and labor-power. Thinking about the reproduction of the worker as a commodity. (One week to go.. gotta keep on pushing. ;))
In both respects, therefore, the worker becomes a servant of his object, first, in that he receives an object of labor, i.e., in that he receives work, and, secondly, in that he receives means of subsistence. This enables him to exist, first as a worker; and second, as a physical subject. The height of this servitude is that it is only as a worker that he can maintain himself as a physical subject and that it is only as a physical subject that he is a worker. – estranged labor