 I have seen a small manufactory of this kind, where ten men only were employed, and where some of them consequently performed two or three distinct operations. But though they were very poor, and therefore but indifferently accommodated with the necessary...  Chambers' Edinburgh Journal - Page 1491841Full view - About this book
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1776 - 526 pages
...hands, though in others the feme man will fometimes perform two or three of them. I have feen a fmall manufactory of this kind where ten men only were employed, and where fome of thent confequently performed two or three diftinft operations. But though they were very poor,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1789 - 526 pages
...hands, though in others the fame man will fometimes perform two or three of them. I have feen a fmall manufactory of this kind where ten men only were employed, and where fome of them confequently performed two or three diftinct operations. But though they were very poor,... | |
 | Robert John Thornton - Economics - 1799 - 852 pages
...where ten men only were employed, and where fome of them confequently performed two or three diftindr. operations. — But though they were very poor, and...therefore but indifferently accommodated with the neceflary machinery, they could, when they exerted themfelves, make among them about twelve pounds... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 372 pages
...distinct hands, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them. I have seen a small manufactory of this kind, where ten men only...make among them about twelve pounds of pins in a day. There are in a pound upwards of four thousand pins of a middling size. Those ten persons, therefore,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1812 - 530 pages
...where ten men only were employed, and where fome of them confequently performed two or three diftin6l operations. But though they were very poor, and therefore but indifferently accommodated with the neceffary machinery, they could, when they exerted themfelves, make among them about twelve pounds... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1812 - 520 pages
...hands, though in others the fame man will fometimes perform two or three of them. I have feen a fmall manufactory of this kind where ten men only were employed, and where fome of them confequently performed two or three diftinct operations. But though they were very poor,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1812
...hands, though in others the fame man will fometimes perform two or three of them. I have feen a fmall manufactory of this kind where ten men only were employed, and where fome of them confequently performed two or three diftinct operations. But though they were very poor,... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Economics - 1820 - 368 pages
...sometimes perform two or three of them. I have seen a small manufactory-of this kind where ten men «nly were employed, and where some of them consequently...make among them about twelve pounds of pins in a day. There are in a pound upwards of four thousand pins of a middling size. Those ten persons, therefore... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Economics - 1821 - 510 pages
...three of them. I have seen a small manufactory " of this kind, where ten men only were em" ployed, and where some of them consequently " performed two...necessary " machinery, they could, when they exerted them" selves, make among them about twelve pounds of " pins in a day. There are in a pound upwards... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...distinct hands, though in others the same man will, sometimes perform two or three of them. I have seen a small manufactory of this kind where ten men only...make among them about twelve pounds of pins in a day. There are in a pound upwards of four thousand pins of a middling size. Those ten persons, therefore,... | |
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