 | 1880 - 894 pages
...unskilled and easy labor, there is an excellent illustration in Adam Smith's description of pin-making: " One man draws out the wire, another straights it,...manufactories are all performed by distinct hands." This division was doubtless useful, so long as pins were made entirely by human hands. It prompted... | |
 | Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - 1881 - 742 pages
...into the paper ; and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which, in some manufactories, are all performed by distinct hands, though in others tho snmo man will sometimes perform two or three of them. I have seen a small manufactory... | |
 | David Ames Wells - 1889 - 590 pages
...them into the paper, and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which, in some manufactories, are all performed by distinct hands, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them. I have seen a small manufactory... | |
 | Richard Whately Cooke-Taylor - 1891 - 556 pages
...into the paper ; and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which, in some manufactories are all performed by distinct hands." Here the finished product is the result of a " series of connected processes and manipulations," all... | |
 | Langford Lovell Price - 1891 - 226 pages
...the paper," and how " the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which, in some manufactories, are all performed by distinct hands, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them." He points out the various... | |
 | ROBERT CHAMBERS - 1892 - 882 pages
...them into a paper; and the important business of making a pin is in this manner divided into alxwe eighteen distinct operations, which in some manufactories...hands.' In this way ten men could make about 48,000 pin* in a day, whereas, if they worked separately and independently, they certainly could not each... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1894 - 526 pages
...into the paper ; and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which, in some manufactories, are all performed by distinct hands, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them. I have seen a small manufactory... | |
 | George Pierce Baker - 1895 - 440 pages
...into the paper ; and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which in some manufactories are all performed by distinct hands, though in others the same man will perform two or three of them. I have seen a small manufactory of... | |
 | George Pierce Baker - 1895 - 436 pages
...into the paper ; and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which in some manufactories are all performed by distinct hands, though in others the same man will perform two or three of them. I have seen a small manufactory of... | |
 | George Pierce Baker - 1895 - 436 pages
...them into the paper; and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which in some manufactories are all performed by distinct hands, though in others the same man will perform two or three of them. I have seen a small manufactory of... | |
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... the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which, in some manufactories, are all performed by distinct hands, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them. 
