because they were chattering,

因为他们在闲聊
they were going out in the back,

他们走到工厂后面
instead of working and talking, and so they all burned to death.

而没有在工作或讲解他们被活活烧死
And the regulations told them that you will be fined if you do this,

工业纪律告诉他们如果这么做会被罚款
you'll be fired if you do this.

这么做会被开除
And the person that enforces them is the foreman.

而强制他们这么做的正是工头
The foreman is promoted from within or, increasingly,

工头是渐渐被提携--
brought from the outside

越来越多从外面被引入
to impose industrial discipline on these workers.

来加强对工人们纪律的约束
The Wedgwood Pottery manufacturer,

威其伍陶器的制造商
some of you've heard of that,

你们有些人应该听说过
he once said, very prophetically,

他曾经说过非常有预见性