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under threat of discipline, and others didn't. But within a day or two most of the plant was laid off, so the issue is still in the air.
Some of the workers still in the plant are being threatened, but no action has yet been täken against them.
It the Body plant struck, then that would stop most of Longbridge as well as Cowley. Buckle is being presented in the press as a fighter against the company's speed-up and dictatorial attitudes, but his record in the Body Plant shows something different. vertisement These "small thefts" of capital from the labourer's meal and recreation time, the factory inspectors also designate as "petty pilferings of minutes," "snatching a few minutes," or, as the labourers technically called them, "nibbling and cribbling at meal-times."
It is evident that in this atmosphere the formation of surplus value by surplus labour, is no secret. "If you allow me," said a highly respectable master to me, "to work only ten minutes in the day overtime, you put one thousand a year in my pocket." "Moments are the elements of profit.
Karl Marx - Capital volume 1
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