Labor and Manufacturing

The Marxist focus on Manufacturing Labor likely reflects the recognition of unprecedented industrialization as the predominant factor in the determination of social relations.  Thus, the demonstrable exploitation involved in that determination, based on the fact that the owners of the means of production and the operators of the means of production are not the same, and, therefore, according to the ethos of Capitalism, have conflicting interests, is novel.  But, if that contradiction is specific to the Manufacturing sector of that era, then its generalizations are strained, e. g. the classification of land as a 'means of production' in order to reduce a feudal landowner to an 'owner of the means of production', or, the extension of that mode of exploitation to other sectors.  Likewise, if the mode of exploitation is specific to it, then so, too, is its remedy, e. g. the nationalization of manufacturing industry does not in itself justify that of the transportation or of the health sector of a society.  So, the Marxist emphasis on Manufacturing Labor conversely entails a limitation that is ignored in its analyses.