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“Owen, of course, was overlooking the fact that his fellow manufacturers were more concerned with their machines than with their workers because the former represented a heavy capital investment whereas the oversupply of unskilled labour presented no replacement problem. Only when industry must spend money in training its personnel do they become economically as important as machines.” — J Bronowski

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Owen, of course, was overlooking the fact that his fellow manufacturers were more concerned with their machines than with their workers because the former represented a heavy capital investment whereas the oversupply of unskilled labour presented no replacement problem. Only when industry must spend money in training its personnel do they become economically as important as machines.
— J Bronowski