the commodities of the capitalist marketplace elevated to a fetishistic position, the workers themselves become commodities:
In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, he modern working class, developed--a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce. . . . (211).
An important part of the alienation of the worker in this process is the division of labor. Just as an assembly line is composed of different machines doing individual tasks in the production of a commodity, so is the individual worker in
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