...meant the need for less skilled and therefore cheaper labor, He argued that the master mannfacturer, by dividing the work to be executed into different...processes, each requiring different degrees of skill or of force, can purchase the precise quantity of both which is necessary for each process; whereas,...

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...nature, and the details filled in by experience. 4 Distinct duties: Is language an independent skill? The master manufacturer, by dividing the work to be...processes, each requiring different degrees of skill and strength, can purchase exactly that precise quantity of both which is necessary for each process; whereas,...

...work organization embodied the Babbage Principle, originally expressed in a manufacturing context: that the master manufacturer, by dividing the work...processes, each requiring different degrees of skill or of force, can purchase exactly that precise quantity of hoth which is necessary for each process;...

...in the skill mix among the workforce, which significantly reduces the total average cost of labour: That the master manufacturer, by dividing the work...processes, each requiring different degrees of skill or of force, can purchase exactly that precise quantity of both which is necessary for each process;...

...to this list what is probably the most essential contribution of the division of labor: ". . . the processes, each requiring different degrees of skill and force, can purchase exactly that quantity of both which is necessary for each process" (Babbage 1970: 15). At the beginning of the twentieth...

...rate, rather than at the high single rate that would be commanded by an individual skilled workman: That the master manufacturer, by dividing the work...processes, each requiring different degrees of skill or of force, can purchase exactly that precise quantity of both which is necessary for each process;...

...methods used to impose a hierarchy of operations and functions in the manufacturing process on workers: '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'...

...any explanation of the cheapness of manufactured articles, as consequent upon the division of labor, would be incomplete if the following principle were...processes, each requiring different degrees of skill or of ' Adam Smith, The wealth of nations (1776), Vol. 1, Book 1, Chap. 1. force, can purchase exactly...

...British; because it is based on Babbage's famous observation (AB 1832} that in a large factory "the manufacturer by dividing the work to be executed into...can purchase exactly that precise quantity of both that is necessary for each process." But it has been carried out so thoroughly in the war-munitions...