Men Working On Roads
The negative aspects of industry on the worker become even more apparent in Men Driving Stakes and Road Menders because Seurat creates the worker as less of an individual and more as part of a machine. 
Both paintings show men constructing roads in order to improve transportation and commerce, two elements of the industrialization of France. Because of the “gradual encroachment of the metropolis on the countryside”, ventures such as constructing roads were vital (Zimmerman 73). Unlike the agricultural jobs portrayed in Seurat’s other works, these workers are integrating into the industrial revolution because of their work which were so vital to the industrial revolution. The increased relation to industry made Seurat depict the worker in a different light. Instead of portraying only one worker at a time, the workers are now put alongside other workers. By being part of a group, Seurat comments on the workers becoming a part of the machine of industry. 
Because of this, the worker loses his individuality gradually and becomes even more of an interchangeable part. While the men are presented in a group, each worker in the group has his own individual features that separate himself from the group. In Road Menders, Seurat portrayed each worker in a different position, doing a different part of the task at hand, building the road. Because Seurat paid particular attention to the work of each figure, there still remains a sense of individuality with each worker. Therefore, industry has not totally revolutionized the working-class people, but as time progresses, individuality becomes less apparent.