machine-workers

I was to be a check-girl, whose duties would consist in checking out bundles of work to the machine-workers and in checking in the finished product.

Madeleine: An Autobiography Madeleine 1919

I was to be a check-girl, whose duties would consist in checking out bundles of work to the machine-workers and in checking in the finished product.

Madeleine An Autobiography Anonymous 1919

But assuming that the difference in recorded piece wages accurately represents difference in skill or capacity of work -- which is not quite the case -- it seems evident that there is less variation in capacity among machine-workers than among workers engaged in employments where the work is more muscular, or is conducted by human skill with simpler implements.

The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production 1899

A most important misunderstanding of the line of industrial development arises from a conviction that all production of wealth embodied in matter tends to pass under the dominion of machinery, that an increasing number of workers in the future will become machine-tenders, and that the state-control of machine-industry would bring the vast majority of individuals into the condition of official machine-workers.

The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production 1899

If, then, by the gradual elimination of competition in the machine-industries, the quantity of machine-work were kept down to the social requirements of the community's consumption, the proportion of machine-workers would be less than it is, assuming the demand for machine-made goods continued the same.

The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production 1899

The best machinery requires for its economical use a fair standard of living among the workers who co-operate with it, and with the further development of machinery in each industry we may anticipate a further rise of this standard, though we are not entitled to assume that this natural and necessary progress of comfort among machine-workers has no fixed limit, and that it is equally applicable to all industries and all countries.

The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production 1899

Even then, after this generation has passed away, the new machine-workers have been better off than their predecessors.

Speculations from Political Economy C. B. Clarke 1869

But although, when we bear in mind the effects of machinery in imparting intensity and monotony to labour, in increasing the number of workers engaged in sedentary indoor occupations, and in compelling an ever larger proportion of the working population to live in crowded and unhealthy towns, the net benefit of machinery to the working classes may be questioned, the growth of machinery has been clearly attended by an improved standard of material comfort among the machine-workers, taking the objective measurement of comfort.

The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production 1899