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Often appears with: worker degradation · revolution and the fall of states · manufactures and politics · labor, wages, and the division of work · division of labor · crafts, industry, and manufacture
Usually: argument (1) · the fall of the great (1) · indignation (1) · skepticism (1)
He argues that although democracy grows manufactures, the division of labor can weaken workers and bind them to craft while simultaneously raising wealthy masters, potentially creating new aristocracy.
led to engage in commerce, not only for the sake of the profit it holds out to them, but for the love of the constant excitement occasioned by that pursuit. The United States of America have only been emancipated for half a century [in 1840] from the state of colonial dependence in which they stood to Great Britain; the number of large fortunes there is small, and capital is still scarce. Yet no people in the world …