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https://educationalevidence.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/child-1332307_1280.jpg900599In 1932, Simone Weil wrote an article entitled Capital and the Worker, in which she observed: “Work is all the more productive the more it is divided. Thus, the division of labour was gradually carried to its extreme limit, at which each worker has only one gesture to perform. From that moment, the worker’s gesture could be replaced by a mechanical movement. And it was then that machinery developed”.