Industrial capitalism defined workers by the very labor it extracted

Evidence

Recall our earlier account of the Industrial Revolution: how, in the nineteenth century, new technologies produced the ability to concentrate, optimize, and extract physical labor at a scale never before seen. The awesome powers of this novel system were matched by the brutal conditions of exploitation that it imposed upon a new class of workers, who were defined, suddenly, by the very thing that nascent industrial capitalism sought to take from them: their labor. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 453

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

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• Labor unions transformed industrial exploitation through collective action (similarity 0.82)
• Nineteenth-century wage labor displaced chattel slavery as the most efficient exploitation nexus. (similarity 0.82)
• The Industrial Revolution transformed social organization of work, not just technology (similarity 0.81)
• Collective worker consciousness extends from the factory to national and international division of labour (similarity 0.78)
• Marx identified industrial workers as the class certain to destroy capitalism. (similarity 0.78)
• Wartime state mobilization proved production relations were changeable, emboldening workers (similarity 0.78)
• Early industrial capitalism created homo economicus, a new market-defined subject. (similarity 0.78)