(p.230) In labor, desire wrenches the object to be nullified entirely out of its context, specifies it, and posits it as connected with a desiring.

(p.247) [T]he satisfaction of the totality of [the individual’s] needs is a labor of everyone. Between the range of needs of the single [agent], and his activity on that account, there enters the labor of the whole people, and the labor of any one is in respect of its contents, a universal labor for the needs of all, so as to be appropriate for the satisfaction of all of his needs.

(p.248) Labor is of all and for all, and the enjoyment [of its fruits] is enjoyment by all. Each serves the other and provides help.

(p.113) In the tool the subjectivity of labor is raised to something universal. Anyone can make a similar tool and work with it. To this extent the tool is the persistent norm of labor... This is why, on Hegel’s view, ‘all peoples living on the natural level have honored the tool.

(p.231) The tool is that wherein laboring has its permanence, that which alone remains over from the laboring and the product of work, that wherein their contingency is eternalized.

(p.246) Technique is a universal mode, a rule of all labor, something that subsists on its own account, that appears as an external, as inorganic nature, and something that must be learned.

(p.120) In the element of being as such, the existence and range of natural needs is a multitude of needs. The things serving to satisfy those needs are worked up [verarbeitet], their universal inner possibility posited as outer possibility, as form.

(p.121) Since work is performed only [to satisfy] the need as abstract being-for-itself, the working becomes abstract as well. … Each individual, because he is an individual here, thus labors for a need. [Yet] the content of his labor goes beyond his need, he labors for the needs of many, and so does everyone. Each satisfies the needs of many, and the satisfaction of one’s own many particular needs is the labor of many others. Since his labor is abstract in this way, he behaves as an abstract I … having no concrete labor, his powers consists in analyzing, in abstracting,...

(p.103) In the tool … I possess a possibility, a content as something universal. Thus the tool [as] means is of greater value than the goal of desire, which goal is particular; the tool encompasses all such particularities.