Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.
When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
Because of the increased efficiency of machines, it is getting harder and harder for a human to make a productive contribution to society.
This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress.
Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades.
Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.
Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.
In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.