Standardization Of Materials And Tools Is Eliminating The Skill of Building Workers
DAY
by day building construction workers are being robbed of their skill,
and in no country is this process so active as in the United States. In
numbers that constantly increase workers who have spent their lives in
this industry find themselves driven to a congested slave market, and
many thousands find their unenviable places in the horde of unemployed
to tramp the streets, or go from place to place in search of masters.
To
find these masters becomes a more difficult matter in proportion to the
progress of standardization and simplification of building tools and
materials that is taking place. It is a startling fact that more
progress has ... (From: Marxists.org.)