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Automation (n.) receives, as soon as possible, any process that requires peculiar dexterity and steadiness of hand, withdrawn from the cunning workman who is prone to irregularities and placed in charge of a mechanism so self-regulating that a child can superintend it.
Discipline (n.) was the factory's real difficulty, beyond inventing a self-acting mechanism: training human beings to renounce their desultory habits and identify themselves with the unvarying regularity of the complex automaton.
A Factory (n.) is, strictly speaking, a vast automaton of mechanical and intellectual organs working in concert without pause, all subordinated to a motive force that moves itself.
A Factory (n.) in this account is a warm and pure moral atmosphere, and an hour sooner outside it the children meet a heartless and frivolous world of idleness and vice.
Improvement (n.) in machinery aims, in the end, to do away with the labour of man entirely — or to cheapen it by putting women and children in place of men.
Leisure (n.) to think of their immortal interests is the gift machinery is said to have brought the factory workers from Providence, for which they are called upon to be thankful.
Machinery (n.) improvement aims constantly at superseding human labour altogether, or cheapening it by substituting women and children for men.
Science (n.) enlisted into the service of capital is the means by which the refractory hand of labour will always be taught docility.
Specialization (n.) enabled each handicraftsman to perfect himself by practice in one point, and he became a cheaper workman.
Steam (n.) is presented not only as an automaton but as an autocrat, the benignant power that in these spacious halls summons around him his myriads of willing menials.
A Strike (n.) occasions injury to the delicate moving parts of metallic mechanisms by inaction.