 | Simon Domberger - 1998 - 244 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Martin Bridgstock - 1998 - 292 pagina’s
...certainly could not make twenty. But in the way in which this business is now carried on ... one man draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it ... the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct... | |
 | Robert Kanigel - 1998 - 266 pagina’s
...published in 1 776 The story unfolds in a pin factory in eighteenth-century Britain. There, one man draws out the wire. Another straightens it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, and so on through eighteen distinct operations. An unskilled worker on his own "could scarce, perhaps,... | |
 | David Williams - 1999 - 534 pagina’s
...which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds...to put it on is a peculiar business, to whiten the ' 425 ' pin is another; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper; and the important... | |
 | Robert L. Heilbroner - 2011 - 373 pagina’s
...Wealth of Nations, Smith comments on a pin factory: "One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds...operations; to put it on is a peculiar business; to whiten it is another; it is even a trade by itself to put them into paper. ... I have seen a small manufactory... | |
 | Frank Ostroff - 1999 - 272 pagina’s
...used the phrase "division of labor" in describing the various tasks involved in making pins: One man draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third...the head requires two or three distinct operations; . . . and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct... | |
 | Andrew Calabrese, Jean-Claude Burgelman - 1999 - 344 pagina’s
...itself a performative act which in a certain way produces its own subject. — Jacques Derrida One man draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third...for receiving the head; to make the head requires three distinct operations; to put it on is a peculiar business, to whiten the pins is another; it is... | |
 | Hugh Stretton - 1999 - 868 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | William Roth - 1999 - 236 pagina’s
...pins in a day, a team of 10 workers cooperating in a shop where the labor had been divided, where "one draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it... and so on, can produce upwards of 48,000 pins in a day."9 Smith, however, talked about the downside... | |
 | George F. Will - 1999 - 384 pagina’s
...Kanigel does cite Adam Smith's famous hymn to the division of labor in that pin factory where "one man draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third...fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head," a process "divided into about eighteen distinct operations." Smith was sanguine about this because... | |
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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... 
