General principle of modern industry: to replace adults by 
children, skilled workers by unskilled, men by women. 

Equalisation of wages: Main feature of modern industry [see 
pp. 34, 35]. 

VII. ROSSI? 

Mr. Rossi thinks: 

The manufacturer only advances to the worker his share in the 
product because the latter cannot wait for its sale. This is a 
speculation which has no direct bearing on the production process. 
If the worker can maintain himself until the product is sold he will, as 
an associé, claim his share in it afterwards. 

Hence, wages are not a constituent element of the product as are 
capital and the land. They are a mere accident, a form of our social 
condition. Wages do not belong to capital. 

Wages are not a factor indispensable to production. In a different 
organisation of labour they may disappear [see pp. 369, 370].