week 5 - manufacture industry

Question 1

Collective laborer - detailed laborer

Answer 1

assumption: one worker cannot posses different skills in equal degree

industrialization introduced the collective laborer

one sided- performing one minute task
the habit of doing only one thing converts him into a never failing machine
connection with the whole mechanism limited
he works with the regularity of the parts of the machine

= the manufacture develops a hierarchy of labor power which corresponds to a scale of wages

Question 2

Creating unskilled labour

Answer 2

• isolated rom the more meaningful processes of production
• creating unskilled laborers
  at the expense of the whole of mens working capacity
  absance of development

makes the labourer a mere fragment of his body
- what is lost in the labourer is gathered in the capital
- subdivision of labour is the assassination of people
- decomposition of skills, specialization of the instrument of labour creates a definite organization of labor
- Worker becomes totally replacable without any interruption to the system
- Owing to its extreme simplicity it allows a rapid and constant change of the individuals
- Workers’ helpless dependence upon the factory as a whole (dependence on the capitalist)
- a process of surplus value
- Technical subordination of men to the uniform motion of the instrument of labor gives rise to a barrack discipline which is elobarted into a complete system of FACTORY

Question 3

unskilled labours benefit for the capitalist

Answer 3

= very benefitial for the capitalis to decrease the cost of production

by diminishing the cost of apprenticeship

value of the labour goes down
surplus value increases for the benefit of the capitalist