Throughout political and philosophical history, the ideas of property, labor and their intrinsic value, both in isolation from each other and together, have been discussed many times, with different outcomes depending on each philosopher. In this article, three philosophical-political thinkers are discussed, with reference to their individual views on property, work and their value at different levels of society. Locke, with his Second Treatise on Government, sees his theories of communal ownership of land through the lenses provided by Russell's History of Western Philosophy and the increasing urbanization that would follow his time, while Marx is seen in terms of his successor. of those thoughts, although obviously his times, being firmly industrial and even in his eyes exploitative in nature, encouraged Marx to develop this line of thought and broaden it to include the changed circumstances he saw. Naomi Klein, with the chapter on the Discarded Factory in her book No Logo, takes the ideas of property and labor even further than her two predecessors: she (like all of us) lives in the time when labor is contracted out of the country in into the hands of foreign workers, to save money. The property/work/value triad that guided the works of both Locke and Marx is thus completely destroyed, leading Klein to adopt a new approach to the issues of property and the value of work in an era of increased consumption. property and labor are involved, Locke appears to be caught between the prevailing ideas and conditions of his time; where aristocratic families owned the land and allowed peasants to work it in exchange for a price, and the ideals of his philosophical work p...... middle of paper ...... own work The Communist Manifesto. Marx realized that in the increasingly urbanized society that surrounded him, production had now become social in nature: the individual possession of property envisaged by Locke was no longer possible. Thus he transferred ownership from individual to communal tenancies, and made each worker an individually important part of the common whole. Klein comes from an even more industrialized version of the world than Marx: she realizes that, since we have completely devalued labor, it cannot offer property or compensatory benefits to the workers involved, either individually or collectively. She regards Locke's work as a valuable idea to the fullest extent possible. As work is no longer recognized for what it is, workers have themselves become property, and the basis of ownership has shifted to the owners of the company employing the workers..