...sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are constantly exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market. The crucial factor is not working in a factory, or working with your hands, or being poor. All these...

...manuscripts. Laborers under capitalism "who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity" (15). "Owing to the extensive use of machinery, and to division...the workman. He becomes an appendage of the machine" (15-16). Note in the above passage Marx and Engels point to another factor that contributes to alienated...

...capitalism. Marx writes that "labourers, who must sell themselves piece-meal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce and are consequently exposed...vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market."9 The "subjective" side of the proletariat is manifested in consciousness when the worker knows...

...mechanization as the source of alienation of the proletarian, who becomes a commodity and whose work 'has lost all individual character, and, consequently, all charm for the workman', who 'becomes an appendage of the machine'. Only the proletariat is a revolutionary class: '[t]he other...

...improved by the rise of factory production. Indeed, factory workers were seen by Engels as slaves: Owing to the extensive use of machinery and to division...charm for the workman. He becomes an appendage of the machine.10 13 Other commentators also took the view that textile factories brought fundamental change...

...increases capital. These laborers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed...the extensive use of machinery and to division of labor, the work of the proletarians has lost all individual character, and, consequently, all charm...

...increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed...vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.28 Owing to the extensive use of machinery and to division of labour, the work of the proletarians...

...increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed...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. Hence, the cost...

...achievements of capitalism, it has little positive to say about the factory system. Marx and Engels argue that "owing to the extensive use of machinery and to division...the workman. He becomes an appendage of the machine. . . . Masses of laborers, crowded into the factory, are organised like soldiers."7 They compare the...

...Marx and Engels pointed out that "owing to the extensive use of machinery and to division of labor, the work of the proletarians has lost all individual...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. Hence, the cost...