In this manner the worker is still doing his profession. But what if demand rises? Then it is inevitable that they will be ordered by their employer to divide their labor, as they are all skilled at each component that will accomplish the final result. (Marx, 456).
Once factories expand and more workers are employed, the idea of men still interacting with people of other crafts is noted. It is irrelevant though, since each man is now only programmed to work a certain type of work. Even if within a factory there are many skills involved in producing a single ultimate item, it is most likely that there will be a series of collective groups, all who specialize in their own work, that will be seen still individualized from the larger whole into little more than the greater parts of a machine.
To even further this idea of separation, Marx notes the production of a watch, which is a complex device with many individual parts that can be easily transported from location to location. Each of the parts can all be produced in far regions from each other, and though they will all form a final form, the individual parts are very unlikely to ever be held by more than one hand (Marx, 462). The creators of the watch will never see the ultimate result, but rather the small piece that they attributed.
It is at this point that a man becomes not more than a mechanical instrument. He is now only a producer of smaller insignificant bits. Manufactures are "as an engine, the parts of which are men." (Marx, 483) Even Smith states that people, when subjected to such mundane lines of work, will become stupid and ignorant. Unfortunately, it is something that is a necessary evil in civilized society. (Marx, 483) Smith believes that this can all be justified through the education of the working class. He claims that with this experience of education, their minds will not entirely deteriorate. .
Essentially, all these workers are being devoid of diversifying themselves into their own interests.
