Factory surveillance proved inseparable from industrial production and profit

Evidence

In the large factory, everything is regulated by the clock. The workers are treated strictly and harshly. The clerks, who are used to treating them with an air of superiority and command, which is really necessary with the multitude, treat them with severity or contempt; hence these workers either cost more or leave the factory soon after arrival’ (Encyclopédie, article on ‘Manufacture’). … But, although the workers preferred a framework of a guild type to this new régime of surveillance, the employers saw that it was indissociable from the system of industrial production, private property and profit. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 271

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Panopticon thesis — surveillance as a structural feature of modern production, extending the reader’s Bentham/Foucault integration past penal walls. — connects to: Surveillance of every motion is the panopticon’s decisive advantage over ordinary industry — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 217; Industrialism is machinery-based production affecting far more than factories — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 151; Surveillance capitalism extracts behavioral surplus to predict and modify behavior. — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 73 (+1 more)

Related

• Puritanical workplace surveillance serves rationalized production, not mere ideology (similarity 0.84)
• Surveillance of every motion is the panopticon’s decisive advantage over ordinary industry (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Surveillance capitalism extracts behavioral surplus to predict and modify behavior. #expands (0.78) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 73
• Industrialism is machinery-based production affecting far more than factories #expands (0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 151