 | Sir George Kettilby Rickards - Capital - 1854 - 286 pages
...pins, or 4,800 pins per man ; whereas, he says, " if they had all wrought separately and independently, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day." This wonderful economy of divided labour is mainly owing to that aptitude and skill which each man... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 490 pages
...forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently,...them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day ; that is, certainly, not the two hundred and fortieth, perhaps not the four thousand eight hundredth... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 496 pages
...forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently,...them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day ; that is, certainly, not the two hundred and fortieth, perhaps not the four thousand eight hundredth... | |
 | Samuel Newington - 1858 - 144 pages
...of forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently,...them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day j that is, certainly not the two hundred and fortieth, perhaps not the four thousand eight hundredth... | |
 | Society of Friends - 1858 - 836 pages
...pins a day with the division of labor ; while if they had all wrought independently and separately, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar business, they certain ly could not each of them have made twenty. The Lucifer Match is a similar example of division... | |
 | Henry Mayhew - 1861 - 580 pages
...person, therefore, making a tenth part of 48,000 pins, might be considered as making 4800 pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently,...to this peculiar business, they certainly could not e.nch of them have made 20, perhaps not one pin in a day.' " M. Say furnishes a still stronger example... | |
 | Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland - Ireland - 1876 - 574 pages
...indifferently supplied with machinery, made 48,000 pins a day, or 4,800 a day each. He adds : — " But if they had all wrought separately and independently,...and without any of them having been educated to this particular trade, they certainly would not each have made twenty, perhaps not one, pin in a day ; that... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - Economics - 1864 - 106 pages
...fortyeight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently,...still stronger example of the effects of division of labour—from a not very important branch of industry certainly, the manufacture of playing cards.... | |
 | Henry Mayhew - Charities - 1864 - 596 pages
...person, therefore, making a tenth part of 48,000 pins, might be considered as making 4800 pin« in a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently,...having been educated to this peculiar business, they certninlv could not each of them have made 20, perlntps not one pin in a day.' " Д1. Say furnishes... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1866 - 628 pages
...forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently,...of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day.'1 M. Say furnishes a still stronger example of the effects of division of labour — from a not... | |
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Those ten persons, therefore, could make among them upwards of forty-eight thousand pins in a day. Each person, therefore, making a tenth part of forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if... 
