If masons were to employ machines for cutting stone, they would be benefited like the seamstresses, instead of being injured.
"Political economy"
W. Stanley Jevons
seamstresses in England received wretchedly poor wages before the introduction of the American sewing machine, and they thought they would be starved altogether when the same work could be done twenty times as fast by machine as by hand.
"Political economy"
W. Stanley Jevons
Uneducated men have to drive cabs, or go into the army, or break stones; poor women become seamstresses, or go out charing.
"Political economy"
W. Stanley Jevons