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Machinery and division of labour make factory work monotonous and reduce the worker to an appendage of the machine
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Friedrich Engels German philosopher and social scientist (1820 to 1895) Owing to the extensive use of machinery and to division of labour, the work of the proletarians has lost all individual character, and consequently, all charm for the workman. He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most easily acquired knack, that is required of him. Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848; English edition of 1888)gutenberg.org · c. 1848All 36 korrents from this piece
Their wordsOwing to the extensive use of machinery and to division of labour, the work of the proletarians has lost all individual character, and consequently, all charm for the workman. He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most easily acquired knack, that is required of him.
Where this was said
↗Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848; English edition of 1888)gutenberg.org
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Karl Marx German philosopher, economist and revolutionary (1818… Owing to the extensive use of machinery and to division of labour, the work of the proletarians has lost all individual character, and consequently, all charm for the workman. He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most easily acquired knack, that is required of him. Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848; English edition of 1888)gutenberg.org · c. 1848All 36 korrents from this piece
Their wordsOwing to the extensive use of machinery and to division of labour, the work of the proletarians has lost all individual character, and consequently, all charm for the workman. He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most easily acquired knack, that is required of him.
Where this was said
↗Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848; English edition of 1888)gutenberg.org
All 36 korrents from this piecethis one is 7th
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