The Iron Man in Industry An Outline of the Social Significance of Automatic Mac
The Iron Man in Industry An Outline of the Social Significance of Automatic Mac
Arthur Pound
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At the same time that they are raising the standard of living, they are contributing to a solidar- ity of labor and a mediocrity of type hitherto un- known in America. Variations of earning power and social position, based on craft-skill, are disappearing from our world. Rural and town labor are fusing in ideas as in function. Our ablest minds set the public a pace so fast that weak spots are uncovered in the mental armor of less competent individ- uals, a process tending toward lower levels in... the plebs. But perhaps the most important thing that they are doing, of which they are not altogether conscious, appears on the credit side of the ledger. They are training the workaday world in cooperation. No such school of cooperation in mundane affairs has ever been set up as that operated for profit by Amer- ican corporations. With every improvement in proc- ess and every expansion of scope, the day is brought 86 THE IRON MAN nearer when the lesson shall have been learned and the attempt to apply it made.
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