Each firm’s unique productive process breeds a privileged skilled workforce.

Evidence

Since there has never functioned and does not function any law of perfect parity of systems and production and work methods valid for all firms in a specific branch of industry, it follows that every firm is, to a greater or less degree, “unique” and will form a labour force with qualifications proper to its own particular requirements. Little manufacturing and working secrets, or “fiddles”, practised by this labour force, which in themselves seem insignificant, can, when repeated an infinite number of times, assume immense economic importance. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1147

Categorization

• XREF: This is the formation mechanism behind the “labour aristocracy” concept — connects to the later Islamophobia discussions of stratified labor and divided working classes.