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My companion stopped for a while in front of a young workman, who with a few stereotyped motions was punching holes in the plates of watches brought to him every ten seconds on a mechanical belt. 'you see,' he said after a moment's thought, 'here the man is bigger than his job.' This remark could very well have served as the title of this short book. While not neglecting, as will be seen, any of the more general and complex kinds of work which our industrial society still demands, and even in certain sectors tends to increase, what follows is particularly concerned with those occupations, now highly sub divided by the progress of technology, which are much too limited in scope to involve the worker's whole personality, however much his intellectual needs and personal ambitions may have been restricted by his upbringing and social environment. All those engaged in such work, and there are still tens of millions, indeed perhaps hundreds of millions of them in different parts of the world, are 'bigger than their jobs'; those repetitive and frag mentary operations of all kinds, performed in factories, in mines.
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My companion stopped for a while in front of a young workman, who with a few stereotyped motions was punching holes in the plates of watches brought to him every ten seconds on a mechanical belt. 'you see,' he said after a moment's thought, 'here the man is bigger than his job.' This remark could very well have served as the title of this short book. While not neglecting, as will be seen, any of the more general and complex kinds of work which our industrial society still demands, and even in certain sectors tends to increase, what follows is particularly concerned with those occupations, now highly sub divided by the progress of technology, which are much too limited in scope to involve the worker's whole personality, however much his intellectual needs and personal ambitions may have been restricted by his upbringing and social environment. All those engaged in such work, and there are still tens of millions, indeed perhaps hundreds of millions of them in different parts of the world, are 'bigger than their jobs'; those repetitive and frag mentary operations of all kinds, performed in factories, in mines.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Perhaps after all the division of labour is a necessary evil. Labour having been simplified to its extreme limit, the machine takes the place of man and man engages in other more complicated work, which he then proceeds to subdivide and simplify in order to give more business to the machine. And so it goes on. Thus, more and more, the handworker's domain is invaded by the machine, and, as the system is extended to its extreme limits, the worker's function becomes increasingly intellectual. This ideal attracts me greatly; but the transition period is a hard one, since, until the new machines are created, the worker is himself made into a machine by the simplification of his work, and suffers the unfortunate effects of a debasing necessity... Let us then accept the division of labour where it is proved necessary, but with the hope that the machine will increasingly take over all simplified jobs; and let us insist with the same urgency as for the workers of other classes, that the workers of this class shall receive an education not only saving them from mental torpor, but also stimulating them to find a way of controlling the machine instead of being themselves the machine-controlled. - anthime corbon, Worker, Vice-President of the Constituent Assembly of 1848
Without work all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless life stifles and dies. - albert Camus
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