Topic > New Aristocracy of Industrialists - 901

According to The Aristocracy of Industrialists, which from Democracy in America, Tocqueville primarily discussed how scientific manufactures bring people closer to the aristocracy. He separately discussed the potential harms of the division of labor and the differences between the new aristocracy and the old one. In his mind, the division of labor consumes the rank between workers and bosses, because workers only pay wear and tear on specific work processes, which limit their opinions and thinking abilities, but the bosses consider the extensive vision of production more than the workers, which makes the masters control. more social capital. This phenomenon tends towards the new aristocracy. Furthermore, he argued that this new aristocracy is different from the old one, because the relationship between masters and workers is built on benefits, which means that the masters pay workers only for the production of goods, and the masters have no responsibility towards of workers outside the system. working hours. In the old aristocracy the workers belong to the masters. Bosses bear responsibility for the lives of workers.2 To show the potential harms of the division of labor, Tocqueville presented an example of the creation of pinheads. He believed that a worker who has been producing pinheads for more than twenty years would do nothing but produce pinheads. The reason is that, in the process of division of labor, the head producer only considers his own work, work limits his ideas and views. In this situation, the worker does not belong to himself but to the work. Tocqueville argues that this mode of production leads workers to lose the general faculty of applying their mind to the direction of work. He holds up his argument as the example of workers who spent twenty years making pin heads. He... is halfway through the paper... he has no free time to rest and make a social contract. Some of them even suffer from depression. Another problem, as Tocqueville said, is that a new aristocracy is emerging in society. Many news reports say that many leaders of private companies burn through money, such as buying lots of luxury goods, but paying only the minimum wage to workers. These leaders are colder towards workers, such as firing employees, who produce lower benefits; they do not care about the living situations of the workers. I heard the news that five young employees committed suicide in a Chinese company that produced telephone products. The point is that it is difficult to stop this new aristocracy. The reason is that this group of people controls the production of the necessary goods that are so close to our lives; ordinary people “support” this wealthy group. The rich have economic power and the ability to expand their empire.