Passage 1
この穴へ落ち込むと金属を腐蝕させる塩化鉄で衣類や皮膚がだんだん役に立たなくなり、臭素の刺戟で咽喉を破壊し夜の睡眠がとれなくなるばかりではなく頭脳の組織が変化して来て視力さえも薄れて来る。
Labour and mechanizationHabit and self-commandhuman institutions · advancesdependence · advancesEconomic and material powerConsequences and welfareDiminishes autonomyIndividualInstitutionalWork and economic orderMind and body
Yokomitsu locates mechanized work’s violence in the gradual bodily and cognitive degradation imposed by factory chemicals.
Opening section, narrator on hazardous chemical work