relatively few, industrial establiahmenta whose work belongs earlier in the process of elaboration. And it may similarly depend on certain other, closely defined, industrial eatablishmenta for a vent of its own specialized and standardized product.' It may likewise depend in a strict manner on special means of transportation.'
Machine production leads to a standardization of I _seryice8 as well as of goods. So, for instance, 1 the modem means of commmiication and the syBtem into which these means are organized are also of the nature of a mechanical process, and in this mechanical process of service and intercourse the life of all civilized men is more or less intimately involved. To make effective use of the modern system of communication in any or all of its ramihcations (streets, railways, steamship lines, telephone, telegraph, postal service, etc.), men are required to adapt their needs and their motions to the exigencies of the process whereby this civilized method of intercourse is carried into effect. The service is standardized, and therefore the use of it is standardized also. Schedules of time, place, and circumstance rule throughout. The scheme of everyday life must be arranged with a strict
< Well llJuatrBted bj Uie Interdependence oF the Tarioua bmnches o[ iron and ateel production.
■ Ab ee«ii. e.g. , in the dependence of oil production or oil refining on the pipe lines and tbeir management, or in the dependence of the pnirle fumera on the nulway lines, ete.