 | 1825 - 424 pages
...circumstances : first, to the increase of dexterity in each particular workman ; secondly, to the saving of time, which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another ; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one... | |
 | Jean Baptiste Say - Economics - 1827 - 522 pages
...Royal Society of Edinburgh, January 21, and March 18, 1793.] AMIBICAS EIUTOB. 2. The saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another, and in the change of place, position, and tools. The attention, which is always slowly transferred, has... | |
 | Jean Baptiste Say - Economics - 1827 - 522 pages
...Royal Society of Edinburgh, January 21, and March 18, 1793.] ANIKICAS EDITOB. 2. The saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another, and in the change of place, position, and tools. The attention, which is always slowly transferred, has... | |
 | Samuel Read - Economics - 1829 - 440 pages
...time commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another ; and, thirdly, it gives rise to the invention of a great number of machines which...labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.* On the first of these heads, Dr Smith observes, — " A common smith, who, though accustomed to handle... | |
 | Samuel Read - Economics - 1829 - 444 pages
...they,) it increases the skill and dexterity of every particular workman; secondly, it saves the time commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another ; and, thirdly, it gives rise to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge... | |
 | Gill's scientific, technological and microscopic repository - 1830 - 420 pages
...circumstances: 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 invention of a great number of machines, which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one... | |
 | G. Robertson - Economics - 1830 - 480 pages
...stances ; first, the increase of dexterity in every " particular workman ; secondly, to the saving of " time which is commonly lost in passing from one "species of work to another; and thirdly, to the " invention of a great number of machines, which " facilitate and abridge labour, and... | |
 | Charles Babbage - Factory system - 1832 - 352 pages
...: first, to the increase " of dexterity in every particular workman ; secondly, " to the saving of time, which is commonly lost in " passing from one species of work to another ; and, " lastly, to the invention of a great number of ma" chines which facilitate and abridge labour, and ena" ble... | |
 | William Carpenter - Great Britain - 1833 - 270 pages
...and of course not one where the dexterity of the workman is the greatest. (2.) To the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another. It is impossible to pass very quickly from one kind of work to another. A country weaver, who cultivates... | |
 | Railroad engineering - 1834 - 434 pages
...circumstances : first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman ; secondly, to the saving of time, which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another ; and, lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines, which facilitate and abridge labor, and enable one... | |
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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;... 
