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The agents of the factories, and their subordinate officers, influenced by humor or interest, decide everything arbitrarily.” And this arbitrary power seems to have prevailed wherever a factory was established.
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Sumner critiques the arbitrary power exercised by factory agents and their officers, which affects decision-making.
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