Question

“The more mechanised an industry gets, the fewer people are employed, but they too have to work at the pace of the machine.” What would happen if workers began to work at the pace of the machine?

Answer 1

If workers begin to work at the pace of the machine:

1. Workers get exhausted much earlier because machine-paced work is fast, repetitive and physically demanding.
2. Productivity and profit may increase, but only at the cost of workers’ health, leading to fatigue, stress and sometimes accidents.