 | Nicolai J. Foss - 2000 - 488 стор.
...which was responsible for the organization of work within Smith's well-known pin factory, in which "one man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, [and] a fifth grinds it."22 The result, as Smith noted, was that each worker could produce a much greater... | |
 | 2000 - 724 стор.
...have been the effects of the division of labour." * Pin making, for example, is a peculiar trade which is " divided into a number of branches of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades." As a result each man produces at least 240 times as many pins as if he worked alone. The advantages... | |
 | Charles Gide, Charles Rist - 2000 - 728 стор.
...trade, but it is divided into a number of branehes, of whieh the greater part are likewise peeuliar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third euts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for reeeiving the head ; to make the head... | |
 | Dirk Nicolas Wagner - 2001 - 204 стор.
...pins instead of a handful of pins a day (1776/1976. 14f): "But in the way in which this business is now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar...straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grunds it at the top for receiving the head; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations;... | |
 | 2001 - 564 стор.
...separate skills. Take his favourite example of pin manufacture: ... in the way in which this business is now carried on. not only the whole work is a peculiar...peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire. another straightens it. a third cuts it. a fourth points it. a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the... | |
 | Anna Grandori - 2001 - 484 стор.
...industry, make one pin a day, and certainly could not make twenty. But in the way in which this business is now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar...peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the... | |
 | Pascal Petit - 2001 - 224 стор.
...labour, Adam Smith gives the example of a pin factory. He shows that work can be more efficient when "one man draws out the wire, another straights it,...fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head...", as workers become more proficient and more productive in the respective tasks. He concludes that firms... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 496 стор.
...make one pin in a day, and certainly could not make twenty. But in the way in which this business is now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar...peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the... | |
 | Philip N. Howard, Steve Jones - 2004 - 388 стор.
...the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, with his famous description of a pin makers labor: "One man draws out the wire, another straights it,...a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top" (Smith, 1776/1976, p. 151. Subdividing one task and codifying the skills needed for each subdivided... | |
 | David Raizman - 2003 - 406 стор.
...links such developments to general material progress: One man draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head ... and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct... | |
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But in the way in which this business in now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar trade, but it is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straights it,... 
