SOCD41H3 Lecture : Notes on Marx
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Discuss some of the criteria he sets for distinguishing the machine from the tool, and some of the effects he mentions on the life of the human worker. Karl marx identifies the machine as consisting of three parts. The motor mechanism starts the machine either by generating its own power, or by receiving this power from a primary source. And lastly, the tool or working machine, an assistance to man, is that of which the industrial revolution of the 18th century started. It was the invention of machines that made a revolution necessary, for there were mules and steam engines before there were labourers whose occupation it was, was to make mules and steam engines (7). History predates to tools that were used to alleviate workloads of labourers, but the rise of the. Industrial revolution introduced machinery that could replace and perform better in accuracy and precision than any labourer.
