Puritanical workplace surveillance serves rationalized production, not mere ideology

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Workplace puritanism protects workers from physiological collapse under rationalized labor; External surveillance becomes internalized as self-imposed bodily discipline — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 512; Factory surveillance proved inseparable from industrial production and profit — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 271 (+2 more)

Related

• Factory surveillance proved inseparable from industrial production and profit (similarity 0.84)
• Workplace puritanism protects workers from physiological collapse under rationalized labor (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Factory surveillance proved inseparable from industrial production and profit #corroborates (0.90) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 271
• Workplace puritanism protects workers from physiological collapse under rationalized labor #expands (0.85)
• Industrial rationalization of production requires rationalizing the sexual instinct #expands (0.80)
• External surveillance becomes internalized as self-imposed bodily discipline #expands (0.75) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 512
• Even imperfect invisibility can sustain the illusion of constant surveillance #corroborates (0.75) — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 303