 | Alastair Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton, Harold Coffin Syrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1966 - 656 pages
...kind of work to another, that is carried on in a different place, and with quite different tools. ... A man commonly saunters a little in turning his hand from one sort of employment to another. . . . The habit of sauntering and of indolent careless application, which is naturally, or rather necessarily... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 872 pages
...the text my eye caught the word "saunter", which in Adam Smith means "to dawdle" or "fool around". A man commonly saunters a little in turning his hand from one sort of employment to a quite different. When he first begins the new work he is seldome very keen or hearty. His mind does... | |
 | Herbert A. Applebaum - Social Science - 1992 - 664 pages
...country weaver who cultivates a small farm who loses time passing from field to loom. Smith comments that "a man commonly saunters a little in turning his hand from one sort of employment to another" ( 1937, 8). In consequence of the division of labor, the whole of a worker's attention is directed... | |
 | Patrick Murray - Anthologies - 1997 - 504 pages
...tools. A country weaver, who cultivates a small farm, must lose a good deal of time in passing from his loom to the field, and from the field to his loom....much less. It is even in this case, however, very considerable.A man commonly saunters a little in turning his hand from one sort of employment to another.... | |
 | Business & Economics - 2000 - 224 pages
...work to another, that is carried on in a different place, and with quite different tools"; and even "when the two trades can be carried on in the same work-house," the loss of time, though "no doubt much less," is " very considerable," for a "man commonly saunters a little in turning... | |
 | David F. Ruccio, Jack Amariglio - Business & Economics - 2003 - 428 pages
...the result of the division of social labor. When the division of labor is not developed, Smith says, "a man commonly saunters a little in turning his hand from one sort of employment to another. . . , The habit of sauntering and of indolent careless application . . . renders him almost always... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - History - 2003 - 494 pages
...tools. A countn weaver, who cultivates a small farm, must lose a good deal of time in passing from his loom to the field, and from the field to his loom. When the two trades can he carried on in the same workhouse, the loss of time is no douht much less. It is even in this case,... | |
 | Tor Hernes - Psychology - 2004 - 198 pages
...that A country weaver, who cultivates a small farm, must lose a good deal of time passing from his loom to the field, and from the field to his loom....two trades can be carried on in the same workhouse (italics added) the loss of time is no doubt much less. (Smith, [1776] 1986:113) Smith's enthusiasm... | |
 | Samuel Fleischacker - Philosophy - 2009 - 352 pages
...But these remarks — which themselves are persuasive because they appeal to commonsense observation ("A man commonly saunters a little in turning his hand from one sort of employment to another"), not because they reflect an exhaustive survey of history — come after the main work of getting us... | |
 | Ruth Wells Sandwell - Business & Economics - 2005 - 354 pages
...a variety of occupations did not bode well for the efficiency and productivity of their endeavours: "A man commonly saunters a little in turning his hand from one sort of employment to another ... The habit of sauntering and indolent careless application, which is naturally or rather necessarily... | |
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It is impossible to pass very quickly from one kind of work to another, that is carried on in a different place, and with quite different tools. A country weaver, who cultivates a small farm, must lose a good deal of time in passing from MB loom to the... 
