new economic sectors whose purpose was to modify the behaviour of workers and of consumers respectively. These highly professionalised behavioural modification sectors significantly enhanced capital’s power (its second nature more precisely). 8.1 Labour Command Service Sector – Located in and around the workplace, these professionals applied well-researched, scientific management procedures to speed up the labour process and to squeeze more experiential labour out of a given quantity of commodity labour. Their techniques included Taylorist organisation of the factory floor, sophisticated
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