"When the Industrial Revolution hit Europe, it tore through the centuries-old fabric of society with never-before-seen power. Artisans and craftsmen were pushed aside as mass-produced commodities flooded the market. Losing the crafts to mass production was a terrible loss to humanity; with it disappeared the intimate knowledge that the manual process of the crafts allowed, and the path of self-perfection that came with it—be it woodwork, stonemasonry, smithing, cobbling or tailoring."
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/marx-and-the-proletarian-revolution