and
overlookers,
into
private
soldiers
and
sergeants
of an
industrial
army. “The
main
difficulty
[in the
automatic
factory]
... lay
... above
all in
training
human
beings to
renounce
their
desultory
habits of
work, and
to
identify
themselves
with the
unvarying
regularity
of the
complex
automaton.
To devise
and
administer
a
successful
code of
factory
discipline,
suited to
the
necessities
of factory
diligence,
was the
Herculean
