 | John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 1076 страници
...pin is divided into about eighteen distinct operations. One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving i [" Now " was omitted before " rapid " in the 3rd ed. (1852).] the head; to make the head requires... | |
 | Thames Williamson - 1923 - 568 страници
...which the greater part are likewise 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 head; ' From Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London, 1776. Book... | |
 | Harold Glenn Moulton, Brookings Institution - 1949 - 420 страници
...been divided into a number of specialized acts in which "one man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head," etc., a group of ten persons could make nearly 50,000 pins in a day. Since Smith wrote before the industrial... | |
 | Gertrude Whiting - 1971 - 386 страници
...which the greater part are likewise 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 a head; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations; to put it on is a peculiar business;... | |
 | Suzanne Berger, Michael J. Piore - 1980 - 176 страници
...assigned to a single worker who performs it repeatedly. "One man draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it. . . ."This "modern" factory is contrasted to traditional craft production in which the whole pin is... | |
 | 1206 страници
...example Smith described a pin factory he had visited. "One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it" — eighteen distinct operations in all. In that particular factory only ten men were employed, and... | |
 | Richard Francis - 1997 - 286 страници
...Smith chooses, however, is the manufacture of pins ("One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head," and so on). Fourier's brave new world, by contrast, is as arcadian as Marie Antoinette's old one.40... | |
 | Eirik Grundtvig Furubotn, Rudolf Richter - 2000 - 576 страници
...the pin maker is divided into a number of operations: "One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head, . . ." (4). In this example, it is clear that a "transaction" takes place each time a pin changes hands... | |
 | Simon Domberger - 1998 - 244 страници
...completing the whole range of tasks; if, as he described it, 'one man draws out the wire, another straights 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... | |
 | Hugh Stretton - 1999 - 868 страници
...is slow at the work. But in an efficient pin factory 'one man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head..' and so on through about eighteen specialized operations. By those means the output of pins per worker... | |
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One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head... 
