 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 135by Charles Babbage - 1832 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Jolly - Business & Economics - 2004 - 416 pages
...efficiency: 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... | |
 | Richard Jolly - Business & Economics - 2004 - 410 pages
...efficiency: 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,...first to the increase of dexterity in every particular workma0; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of... | |
 | Adam Smith - Business & Economics - 2004 - 260 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...owing to three different circumstances .... First, the improvement of the dexterity of the workman necessarily increases the quantity of the work he can... | |
 | Michael Hammer, James Champy - Business & Economics - 2009 - 274 pages
...increased the productivity of pm makers by a factor of hundreds. The advantage, Smith wrote, "is owmg to three different circumstances; first, to the increase...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... | |
 | Gerald M. Meier - Business & Economics - 2004 - 264 pages
...amount of input per unit of output. This great increase of the quantity of work, which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people...capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstance; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving... | |
 | Catherine Gallagher - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 236 pages
...words, their difference is apparent: 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... | |
 | Guang-Zhen Sun - Business & Economics - 2005 - 312 pages
...subsist. 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... | |
 | Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 pages
...hundredth part of that. This great increase in the quantity of work consequence of the division of labour, is owing to three different circumstances; first,...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... | |
 | Donald Morris - Philosophy - 2006 - 470 pages
...consequence of this advantage. . . . 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... | |
 | Michael Lewis - Economic policy - 2007 - 1476 pages
...subsist. This great increase in 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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