A Definitive edition of Thomas Hodgskin?s seminal work:- Labour Defended against the Claims of Capital. An updated, corrected and annotated edition being Volume One of the upcoming Collected Works of Thomas Hodgskin. Edited and Annotated by Dr. Fred Day with relevant commentary essays by the Editor.Primarily this edition corrects the mistakes embedded into the 1922 (G.D.H. Cole) version that forms the basis of the majority of subsequent printed and on-line versions. Also includes the corrections and additional introductory Notice Hodgskin himself incorporated in his (rarely available) 1831 reprint to the original 1825 editions.This definitive edition also includes the six letters Hodgskin had published in the Trades? Newspaper, and Mechanics? Weekly Journal between Sept. 1825 and February 1826, that further explained work. Also reproduced is Hodgskin pre-emptive and extensive letter to Francis Place from May 1820, on the subject of David Ricardo?s.To show the persistence of Hodgskin?s position regarding Capital, two much latter items are reproduced: firstly, Trade without Capital ? a letter to The Morning Chronicle - 23rd Jan. 1858. Secondly, Capital and Labour ? an editorial item from The Brighton Guardian from 19th March 1862. And finally, an article from January 1867, the Theory of Capital, that illustrates his steadfastness to the ideals originally laid out in both Labour Defended (1825) and Popular Political Economy (1827).Additionally, two contemporary essays by this collection?s compiler and editor (Dr. Fred Day) are included. These place Hodgskin?s work within modern contexts and illustrate the value of his work to present day economics. They also attempt to integrate these within pluralist and radical perspectives.