The Worker, The Interchangeable Part
The effects of industrialization on his subjects soon affected Seurat's rendering of them as individuals as seen in the next two drawings by Seurat. In this page a more in depth analysis will be done of these two drawings. Signs of industry and factories begin to infiltrate Seurat’s depictions of the worker and he began to disregard their individuality. In the pieces The Harvester and Working Peasant Woman, Seurat portrayed two agricultural workers while working. The portrayal of these figures, though, tends to be less individualized than in other previous works, notably the Mower and Peasant Gathering Plants. 
Although each character is placed alone and inhabits all of the space of the canvas, Seurat did not give the viewer any detail of the work the figure is doing. In both drawings, the figure is bent over but lacks any representation of work being done as the mower and the peasant gathering plants are in Seurat’s other works. Also, neither figure has any facial features, making each less individual and more of just a universal farm worker. Because of this lack of detail, in both The Harvester and Working Peasant Woman, both figures are so similar that Seurat made it possible to interchange each figure in both drawings, like interchangeable parts in a factory. Because this is possible, Seurat further comments on the de-individualization that occurs because of the onset of industry, but Seurat still allows these workers to maintain some sense of individuality. While both figures lack detail, they do both inhabit all of the space on the canvas. This shows Seurat’s high regard for the individual worker even while industry de-individualized the worker as time progresses.