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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;... "
Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social ... - Page 149
by John Stuart Mill - 1848 - 566 pages
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Political Economy

Arthur Latham Perry - Economics - 1883 - 636 pages
...corporeal and intellectual, acquired by the repetition of one simple operation. (6) The saving of the tune which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another, and in the change of place, position, and tools. (c) The invention of a great number of machines which...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith - Economics - 1884 - 604 pages
...in l>assing from one species of work to another; and, lastly, to the invention of a great num. her of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many. First, the improvement of tile dexterity ot' the workmen, necessarily increases the quantity of the...
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The national encyclopædia. Libr. ed, Volume 5

National cyclopaedia - 1884 - 626 pages
...Smith to be— (1) an " increase of dexterity in every particular workman ;" (2) " the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another;1' and (3) ;t the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour...
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Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social ...

John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1885 - 626 pages
...three. " First, the increase of dexterity in every particular workman ; secondly, the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species...•which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one loan to do the work of many." Of these, the increase of dexterity of the individual workman is the...
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Principles of Political Economy

John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1887 - 736 pages
...three : " First, the increase of dexterity in every particular workman ; secondly, the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species...great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labor, and enable one man to do the work of many." (1.) Of these, the increase of dexterity of the...
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Life of Adam Smith

Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount) - Economists - 1887 - 184 pages
...number of illustrations, to be threefold : increase of dexterity in particular workmen ; the saving of time, which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and the invention of machinery, which enables one man to accomplish the work of many. But how does this...
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From Poverty to Plenty; Or, The Labour Question Solved

William Lee Rees - Cooperation - 1888 - 504 pages
...: — " First, the increase of dexterity in every particular workman ; secondly, the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species...labour, and enable one man to do the work of many." Mr. Mill correctly observes that of these the increase of dexterity of the individual workman is the...
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Labor, Capital and Money: Their Just Relations

Cyrus C. Camp - Economics - 1888 - 272 pages
...workman"; "from saving of time lost in passing from one specie of work to another," and " lastly from the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labor." 3d. Money renders it possible for labor and capital, through the great channels of commerce,...
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Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Volume 4

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 870 pages
...efficiency : ' First, the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another'; Officers. Non-com. OfllL'er* •ndHeu. Honx. Omu. Wagons. Divisional Staff 18 68 46 S Infantry Brigades...
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The Industrial and Commercial History of England: (Lectures Delivered to the ...

James Edwin Thorold Rogers - England - 1892 - 506 pages
...in other words, " it increases the dexterity of every particular workman ; " in the next, " it saves time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another ; " and in the third place, it suggests the " invention of labour-saving and laboureasing machines." Two additions...
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