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" That the master manufacturer, by dividing the work to be executed into different processes, each requiring different degrees of skill or of force, can purchase. exactly that precise quantity of both which is necessary for each process... "
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures - Page 169
by Charles Babbage - 1835 - 408 pages
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A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

Alan L. Mackay - Science - 1991 - 312 pages
...work to be executed into different processes, each requiring diiferent degrees of skill and strength, can purchase exactly that precise quantity of both...sufficient strength to execute the most laborious, of the various operations. . . . When (from the peculiar nature of the produce of each manufactory) the number...
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Rethinking Work Experience

Andrew Miller, Anthony Gordon Watts, Ian Jamieson - Education - 1991 - 328 pages
...dividing the work to be executed into different processes, each requiring different degrees of skill and force, can purchase exactly that precise quantity of both which is necessary for each person' (Babbage, 1971 edn., pp. 175-6). Taylor focused his considerable skills on the work tasks to...
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Die Einführung von Fliessbandarbeit in Deutschland bis 1933: zur ..., Volume 1

Jürgen Bönig - Assembly-line methods - 1993 - 570 pages
...die FW Taylor fast siebzig Jahre später systematisierte. "That the master manufacturer, by dividlng the work to be executed into different processes,...executed by one workman, that person must possess sufflcient skill to perform the most difficult, and sufficient strength to execute the most laborious,...
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The Politics of Work: Gender and Labour in Victoria, 1880-1939

Raelene Frances - Business & Economics - 1993 - 286 pages
...dividing the work to be executed into different processes, each requiring different degrees of skill and of force, can purchase exactly that precise quantity of both which is necessary for each process'.29 The more expensive male labour was mainly employed on the more expensive tasks (those which...
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Towards a Competence Theory of the Firm

Nicolai J. Foss, Christian Knudsen - Business & Economics - 1996 - 220 pages
...degrees of skill or of force, can purchase exacdy that precise quantity of both which is necessaty for each process; whereas, if the whole work were...by one workman, that person must possess sufficient strength to execute the most laborious of the operations into which the att is divided' (1833: 175-6)....
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A Complete Course in ISC Commerce

R. P. Maheshwari - Business & Economics - 1997 - 324 pages
...dividing the work to be executed into different processes, each requiring different degree of skills or force, can purchase exactly that precise quantity...necessary for each process; whereas if the whole work is executed by one workman that person must possess sufficient skill to perform the most difficult...
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The Seeds of Speech: Language Origin and Evolution

Jean Aitchison - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 300 pages
...work to be executed into different processes, each requiring different degrees of skill and strength, can purchase exactly that precise quantity of both...necessary for each process; whereas, if the whole were executed by one workman, that person must possess sufficient skill to perform the most difficult,...
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Information Technology and Organizational Transformation: History, Rhetoric ...

JoAnne Yates, John Van Maanen - Computers - 2001 - 388 pages
...requiring different degrees of skill or of force, can purchase exactly that precise quantity of hoth which is necessary for each process; whereas, if the...difficult, and sufficient strength to execute the most lahorious, of the operations into which the an is divided. (Babbage [1835] 1989, p. 125) Although there...
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The Information Society: An Introduction

Armand Mattelart - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 192 pages
...methods used to impose a hierarchy of operations and functions in the manufacturing process on workers: 'the master manufacturer, by dividing the work to...quantity of both which is necessary for each process' lBabbage, 1832: 175l. Babbage made no secret of his belief in the power of 'information machines'....
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