e organized like soldiers. As privates of the industrial army they are placed under the command of a perfect hierarchy of officers and sergeants. Not only are they slaves of the bourgeois class, and of the bourgeois state; they are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine, by the over-looker, and, above all, by the individual burgeois manufacturer himself (p. 16).
Even peasants in the Middle Ages had bits and pieces of freedom. They might have to work for the lord of the land on certain days of the week, but were left alone on others. The medieval craftsman had only a few tools to work with, and was not an efficient producer. However, when a craftsman made, say, a clock, he could take pride in it. It remained "his" clock, in some way, even when he sold it and it sat in someone else's house.
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