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‘The paradox is that people need to have a satisfying experience of dependence before they can become truly independent and largely self-regulating.’

‘But so much human feeling was also swept aside in the relentless expansion of capitalism. The most glaring damage was done to the least powerful, but these changes affected emotional life in all classes and genders. In particular, the drive to maximise production encouraged factory owners to treat their workers as extensions of their machines, not as people with feelings.’