The Factory and the Individual
Seurat furthered this notion of the worker becoming only ”one of the many cogs in the machinery of the industrial revolution” as Herbert states in Seurat’s Drawings in his work Men Outside Factory (Herbert, Seurat’s Drawings 89). 
As deduced from the title, this drawing shows a group of workers, gathered in a group, in front of a factory. By placing the workers in a group, Seurat again can not focus on the individual worker. Along with the focus being on the group and not on the individual, Seurat drew the figures as silhouettes without any detail. By drawing this way, it is difficult to differentiate the workers from each other. Because Seurat did this, the focus of the drawing is placed on the group rather than the individual and creates the sense that each worker is again an interchangeable part of the machine of industry. Even though Hebert states that these workers within the group were “treated with dignity”, it seems that Seurat’s portrayal becomes less dignified as he incorporates industry within his paintings more often (Herbert Seurat 40). Within Men Outside Factory, the men become less individualized which creates a less dignified scene when compared to Seurat’s portrayal of farm workers. Because Seurat does not create individuals but rather is portraying the worker as part of the whole, he is commenting negatively on the implications that industry had for the worker. Because of the placement of a factory in the background, Seurat again shows how factories had negative implications for the worker. Through Men Outside Factory, Seurat connects the de-individualization and dehumanization of the worker as a direct result of industry and its repercussions for the average worker.