 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
 | 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;... | |
 | Sharon Parker, Toby D. Wall - Business & Economics - 1998 - 188 pages
...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,... | |
 | Peter Krass - Business & Economics - 2000 - 518 pages
...the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one 282 man to do the work of many." Now, although all these...by dividing the work to be executed into different proce¿¿e¿, each requiring different degrees of ¿kill and force, can purchase exactly that precise... | |
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