 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
 | Malcolm Waters - History - 1999 - 578 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...performing, is owing to three different circumstances: I. To the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; II. To the saving of the time which is... | |
 | Naomi R. Lamoreaux - Business & Economics - 1999 - 364 pages
...Interestingly, Smith ( [1776] 1976, 11 ) attributed the effect of the division of labor to three factors: "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... | |
 | Wei-Bin Zhang - Religion - 2000 - 164 pages
...the wealth of a nation. He argued: 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... | |
 | Business & Economics - 2001 - 564 pages
...finely as the market will allow. 1This) 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... | |
 | Al Gini - Business & Economics - 2001 - 288 pages
...have made twenty, perhaps not one pin a day. . . . This great increase of the quantity of work ... 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... | |
 | Huw Beynon - Business & Economics - 2002 - 358 pages
...Smith elaborated three reasons for gains in efficiencies: The great increase in the quantity of work... 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... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - Enlightenment - 2003 - 496 pages
...latter than in the former. [...] 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, Nigel Slack - Business & Economics - 2003 - 518 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... | |
 | George Baird - Architecture - 1995 - 428 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... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - History - 2003 - 494 pages
...quantity of work, which, in consequence of the division of lahour, the same numher of people are capahle of performing, is owing to three different circumstances;...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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