While the First Industrial Revolution was associated with the development of the textile and steel industries, the Second Industrial Revolution is marked by the development of the chemical and the electrical industries. The Enlightenment had argued and fought for a society governed by reason. Any worker can be replaced with any other worker.
Production is part of a large organization and process.
A worker may never know what the product he helped make was ultimately used for. The individual becomes to a degree anonymous and looses individual identity. The Bureaucratic State Bureaucracy is based on the division of competence. To be efficient, a bureaucracy must divide tasks among different agencies. Therefore, no individual is authorized to handle all problems.