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" This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman;... "
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures - Page 135
by Charles Babbage - 1832 - 320 pages
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Voices of the Industrial Revolution: Selected Readings from the Liberal ...

John Bowditch, Clement Ramsland - Communism - 1961 - 210 pages
...which no country can well subsist. This great increase of the quantity of work, which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people...every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the...
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Classes, Power and Conflict: Classical and Contemporary Debates

Anthony Giddens, David Held - Social Science - 1982 - 664 pages
...chapter of The Wealth of Nations: This great increase in the quantity of work, which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people...every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the...
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Flexible Manufacturing Systems in Practice: Design: Analysis and Simulation

Joseph Talavage - Technology & Engineering - 1987 - 386 pages
...increased productivity. As he wrote: This great increase of the quantity of work, which in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people...owing to three different circumstances; first to the increased dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of time which is commonly...
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The Economic Theory of Structure and Change

Mauro Baranzini, Roberto Scazzieri - Business & Economics - 1990 - 376 pages
...production (technological inventions): This great increase of the quantity of work, which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people...every particular workman; secondly to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the...
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Work, Inc.: A Philosophical Inquiry

Edmund Byrne - Business & Economics - 1992 - 358 pages
...overall process. That more and better work is possible when done in this atomistic way Smith attributes first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the...
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History and Historians of Political Economy

Werner Stark - Business & Economics - 1994 - 342 pages
...(1904: 9 [1976b: 17]) as follows: "This great increase of the quantity of work, which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people...performing, is owing to three different circumstances": (1) improved dexterity; (2) saving of time; and (3) application of machinery. For this third point...
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Adam Smith: Critical Assessments, Volume 3

John Cunningham Wood - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 664 pages
...subsequently by Smith, the second." "The great increase in the quantity of work, which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing", is ascribed to three circumstances: increased dexterity, saving of time, and the invention of machines...
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Radical Political Economy: Explorations in Alternative Economic Analysis

Victor D. Lippit - Business & Economics - 1996 - 416 pages
...allow. (This) great increase of the quantity of work, which, in consequence of the division of labor, the same number of people are capable of performing,...every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the...
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Social Evolution in Ants

Andrew F.G. Bourke, Nigel R. Franks - Nature - 1995 - 548 pages
...economics: This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labor, the same number of people are capable of performing,...every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the...
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On Moral Business: Classical and Contemporary Resources for Ethics in ...

Max L. Stackhouse, Dennis P. McCann, Preston N. Williams, Shirley J. Roels - Business & Economics - 1995 - 1002 pages
...the quantity of work, which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people arc capable of performing, is owing to three different...every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the...
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