...each requiring different degrees of skill and of force, can purchase exactly that precise quantity which is necessary for each process ;* whereas, if the whole work were executed by one workman, it is evident that that workman must possess sufficient skill toperform the most difficult, and sufficient...

...each requiring different degrees of skill and of force, can purchase exactly that precise quantity which is necessary for each process ;* whereas, if the whole work were executed by one workman, it ia evident that that workman must possess sufficient skill to perform the most difficult, and sufficient...

...dividing the work to be executed into different processes, each requiring diffeient degrees of skill and force, can purchase exactly that precise quantity...which is necessary for each process ; whereas, if the work were executed by one workman, that person must possess sufficient skill to perform the most difficult,...

...in division of labour ; viz., that the lutter can thus purchase the precise amount of skill or power necessary for each process ; whereas, if the whole work were executed by one workman, he must possess skill to perform the most difficult as well as strength to execute the most laborious....

...different processes, each requiring different degrees of skill, or of force, the master manufacturer can purchase exactly that precise quantity of both...sufficient strength to execute the most laborious, of those operations into which the art is divided. Needle-making is perhaps the best illustration of the...

...different processes, each requiring different degrees of skill or force, can purchase exactly that precis* quantity of both which is necessary for each process...sufficient strength to execute the most laborious of the oper*And in any tions into which the work is divided." And it is to be noticed should as that the economy...

...in manufactories, but learned men, handicraftsmen, and even peasants (Brindley), who play a part 1 "The master manufacturer, by dividing the work to...sufficient strength to execute the most laborious of tbr operations into which the article is divided." (Ch. Babbage. 1. c., ch. xviii.) failing instrument,...

...in manufactories, but learned men, handicraftsmen, And even peasants (Brindley), who play a part. 1 "The master manufacturer, by dividing the work to...difficult, and sufficient strength to execute the moit laborious of the operations into which the article is divided." (Ch. Babbage. 1. ct ch. xviii.)...

...resulting from the division of labor are evident. When the whole work in any art is executed by one person, that person must possess sufficient skill to perform the most difficult, and sufficient strength to perform the most laborious, of the processes ; but by employing a division of labor several persons...

...cheapness of manufactured articles, had been 'altogether unnoticed'. That cause, in his opinion, is that ' the master manufacturer, by dividing the work...quantity of both which is necessary for each process '. (p. 175.) Babbage, that is to say, regarded division of labour as consisting in the more economical...