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 135by Charles Babbage - 1832 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
| Andrew Miller, Anthony Gordon Watts, Ian Jamieson - Education - 1991 - 328 pages
...theoretical underpinning of Taylorism was provided by Babbage who in 1835 wrote the following: 'The manufacturer, by dividing the work to be executed...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... | |
| Alan L. Mackay - Science - 1991 - 312 pages
...stock than that which it immediately succeeds. The Exposition of 1851 1851 (London: Murray) p 25 3 That the master manufacturer, by dividing the work...executed into different processes, each requiring diiferent degrees of skill and strength, can purchase exactly that precise quantity of both which is... | |
| Raelene Frances - Business & Economics - 1993 - 286 pages
...into its various parts and thus cheapening labour on the separate sections. As Babbage put it: 'the manufacturer, by dividing the work to be executed...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... | |
| 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, each requiring different degrees of skill or of force, can purchase exactly that precise quantity of both which is necessary for each process;... | |
| Mauro F. Guillén - Business & Economics - 1994 - 439 pages
...book is the one on the division of labor, in which Babbage concisely formulated the crucial principle that the master manufacturer, by dividing the work...processes, each requiring different degrees of skill or offorce, can purchase exactly that precise quantity of both which is necessary for each process;... | |
| Herman E. Daly - Business & Economics - 1994 - 548 pages
...Charles Babbage called attention to another advantage of the subdivision of production into simple acts. "The master manufacturer, by dividing the work to...processes, each requiring different degrees of skill or of force, can purchase exactly that precise quantity of both which is necessary for each process;... | |
| Charles M. Savage - Business & Economics - 1996 - 374 pages
...Frederick Taylor. Babbage clearly believed that a worker should be paid only for the task performed: The master manufacturer, by dividing the work to be...different degrees of skill and force, can purchase exactly the precise quantity of both which is necessary for each process; whereas, if the whole work were executed... | |
| Nicolai J. Foss, Christian Knudsen - Business & Economics - 1996 - 220 pages
...increased productivity and growth. Babbage formulates this 'principle of economy of scale' as 'That die master manufacturer, by dividing the work to be executed into different processes, each requiting different degrees of skill or of force, can purchase exacdy that precise quantity of both... | |
| R. P. Maheshwari - Business & Economics - 1997 - 324 pages
...specialises and develops expertise only in certain areas. He completes a part of the total process. The master manufacturer by dividing the work to be...into different processes, each requiring different degree of skills or force, can purchase exactly that precise quantity of both which is necessary for... | |
| Donald A. MacKenzie - Science - 1998 - 356 pages
...division of labor are clear. Labor is cheapened, according to the principle enunciated by Babbage in 1832: "The master manufacturer, by dividing the work to...processes, each requiring different degrees of skill or offeree, can purchase exactly that precise quantity of both which is necessary for each process;... | |
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