Machinofacture

Then Professor Reuleaux goes on to show that where “machinofactures" are produced , it can especially be noticed how the laborer is gradually surrendered to capital .

Marx himself declared that it was only with the technical basis of machinofacture for the production of further machines that capitalism created for itself a 'fitting technical foundation' (Marx, 1976, p. 376). This transition to machinofacture began early in the nineteenth century in several sectors but only by the middle of the century did it become firmly dominant over manufacture in the construction of machinery.

Not quite, for it is a fact that the best-constructed system of automatic machinofacture, even if provided with a continuous supply of fuel and raw materials, would soon grind to a standstill without human attention.

First, because machinofacture is capital-intensivem, and because developing nations are cash-poor, capital moves in and out of developing countries with relatively little capture of the value-added beyond wages to labor; and despite defense of a machinofacture development strategy on the grounds of technology transfer, there is little evidence such transfers take place

In 8a ( ii ) the point is made that only man machinofactures products using blueprints and such .

Capital enjoys real economic ownership of the productive asset writing through its real economic ownership of the forces of production that capital uses in the direct, rationalized production of the writing-identified-writer who, according to design, must pay to become the self-purchasing alienable use-value that capital machinofactures for the purpose of transforming writing into writing-as- exploitation.

But attempts to relate either of them to trends in urbanisation or increases in machinofacturing or the rise of the middle classes seem less plausible.