We have already described the manner in which occupations within the
manufacturing industries are rearranged and the balance is shifted toward
indirect labor so that labor in the mass, as it is applied directly in
production, may be lessened in numbers and controlled in its activities.
This shift creates a small proportion of technical jobs, most of them closely
linked to management, and a larger proportion of lower-grade routinized
technical or unskilled clerical jobs. It is now necessary to focus
not on the occupational shifts within these traditional industries but
rather on the industrial shifts, the movements that change the entire social
division of labor. In doing this we are following the course of capital,
and the paths along which it has drawn labor. And for this we must
attempt to sketch some of the broad social forces at work, and the social
changes which are themselves nothing but the results of the rapid accumulation
of capital in the monopoly era, as well as the conditions of further accumulation
(178).