 | Henry Ezekiel Jackson - 1922 - 332 էջ
...description of pin-making, as practiced in his day: "One man draws out the wire; another straightens it; a third cuts it; a fourth points it; a fifth grinds...to put it on is a peculiar business; to whiten the pin is another; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper; and the important business... | |
 | David Patrick, William Geddie - 1924 - 888 էջ
...illustration of it in the history of political economy is that of pin -making as given by Adam Smith : 'One man draws out the wire, another straights it,...to put it on is a peculiar business ; to whiten the pin is another ; it is even a trade by itself to put them into a paper ; and the important business... | |
 | Thames Williamson - 1923 - 568 էջ
...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... | |
 | 1923 - 42 էջ
...description of pinmaking, as practiced in his day: "One man draws out the wire; another straightens it; and third cuts it; a fourth points it; a fifth grinds...requires two or three distinct operations; to put it on a peculiar business, to whiten the pin is another; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the... | |
 | Harold Glenn Moulton, Brookings Institution - 1949 - 420 էջ
...whereas, once the process of pinmaking had been divided into a number of specialized acts in which "one man draws out the wire, another straights it,...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... | |
 | Julian L. Simon - 258 էջ
...which the division of labour has been very often taken notice of, the trade of the pinmaker. . . . One man draws out the wire, another straights it,...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... | |
 | Richard Francis - 1997 - 286 էջ
...lyrical about "the division of labour." The example Smith chooses, however, is the manufacture of pins ("One man draws out the wire, another straights it,...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... | |
 | Simon Domberger - 1998 - 244 էջ
...particular part of the pin, instead of each completing the whole range of tasks; if, as he described it, 'one man draws out the wire, another straights it,...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... | |
 | Eirik Grundtvig Furubotn, Rudolf Richter - 2000 - 576 էջ
...Smith ([1776] 1976). He notes that the work of the pin maker is divided into a number of operations: "One man draws out the wire, another straights it,...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... | |
 | David Williams - 1999 - 534 էջ
...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,...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... | |
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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... 
