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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 135
by Charles Babbage - 1832 - 320 pages
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Rethinking Work Experience

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...
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A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

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...
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The Politics of Work: Gender and Labour in Victoria, 1880-1939

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...
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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, each requiring different degrees of skill or of force, can purchase exactly that precise quantity of both which is necessary for each process;...
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Models of Management: Work, Authority, and Organization in a Comparative ...

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;...
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For The Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the ...

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;...
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Fifth Generation Management: Co-creating Through Virtual Enterprising ...

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...
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Towards a Competence Theory of the Firm

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...
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A Complete Course in ISC Commerce

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...
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Knowing Machines: Essays on Technical Change

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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