Pauperization Theory - 100 years after.

This article presents the abstract of a paper which examined the pauperization theory. Accumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore, at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, moral degradation at the opposite pole, for instance, on the side of the class that produces its own product in the form of capital. Absolute pauperization is a composite of these six factors. In fact, the history of labor conditions can be divided into periods which are, to a certain extent, characterized by the development of the various factors determining the standard of living. Before the industrial revolution, there is no general process of absolute pauperization, just as other laws of capitalist development are not yet effective, for example, the law of over-production cycles. Increasing slavery is to be found in the fact that whole families are pressed into factory work. Up until 1900, there is no improvement as to hours of work for home and agricultural workers. Probably, for all workers employed by the national capital combined, less misery. On the other hand, the agony of toil has undoubtedly increased partly because of a rise of the intensity of work at home, or because of terrible working conditions in colonies. Slavery--forced labor in colonies--has increased, though the pressure to put one's children into factories has undoubtedly eased .Brutality and moral degradation outside the colonies declined undoubtedly, however it increased in the colonies.