August 1, 2012
The separation of
production requires a separate group of professionals who skill in design is
those skills removed from the line workers, thus replacing skilled artisans
with unskilled operatives. The issue is more of control than it is of
efficiency. The workers who carry out the task of production have very little
insight into the overall definitive intended progression, in the end the actual
worker are stuck with mind deadening tedium. (Braverman, Marx, Weber).
By bring many workers
under a single command structure increases production capacity and standardizes
both the production process and the products themselves. Production, design,
record keeping entrepreneurial functions and ownership all become separated from
on another (Marx, Polanyi, Weber).
Capitalism is founded
upon both free labor and the separation of the workers from the ownership, raw
materials, sources of power that runs the machines and the market itself. This
is capitalism, which both increases efficiency of production and the
powerlessness of the worker are no longer in control of the means of
production. (Marx)
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