 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
 | Jean Aitchison - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 300 pages
...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,... | |
 | JoAnne Yates, John Van Maanen - Computers - 2001 - 388 pages
...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;... | |
 | Huw Beynon - Business & Economics - 2002 - 358 pages
...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;... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood, Michael C. Wood - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 424 pages
...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... | |
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