"As tool becomes machine, man
is estranged from the intellectual potentialities and aspects of work;
and each individual is routinized in the name of increased and cheaper
unit productivity. The whole unit and meaning of time is modified; man's
'life-time,' wrote Marx, is transformed into 'working-time.' In tying down
individuals to particular tasks and jobs, the division of labor 'lays the
foundation of that all-engrossing system of specializing and sorting men,
the development in a man of one single faculty at the expense of all other
faculties, which caused A. Ferguson, the master of Adam Smith, to exclaim:
'We make a nation of Helots, and have no free citizens' (White
Collar: The American Middle Classes, 1951, p. 226).