Ruskin attacks classical political economy's treatment of workers as mere mechanisms, arguing that true wealth is the life and just relations it enables, not accumulation for its own sake.
Books mentioned in Unto This Last, and Other Essays on Political Economy (1)
Principles of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill: “The most reputed essay on that subject which has appeared in modern times, after opening with the statement that "writers on political economy profess to teach, or to investigate,[25] the nature of wealth," … "Principles of Political Economy." By J. S. Mill.”