Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Nutrition, Agriculture, Machinery, Class, Political Economy, Industry, Work

    Discusses Harriet Martineau's argument that 'Stevens's Bread-Making Machinery' will economise the labour of manufacturing bread and end 'journeymen bakers' grievances'. Thinks that the notion of eating bread made from something that has killed 'the journeyman baker' is like 'eating the journeyman himself', but that bread will now be eaten 'without a shudder' owing to the fact that kneading will no longer be performed by muscular power.