...division and specialization of labor. Early in The Wealth of Nations, Smith comments on a pin factory: "One man draws out the wire, another straights it,...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...

...describing the various tasks involved in making pins: One man draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds...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...

...materials for each successive stage of the job, he is slow at the work. But in an efficient pin factory 'one man draws out the wire, another straights it,...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...

...certain way produces its own subject. — Jacques Derrida One man draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds...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...

...an example, which has since become 'classical,' from the " trade of the pin-maker." He shows how " one man draws out the wire, another straights it,...fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head," how " to make the head requires two or three distinct operations," how " to put it on is a peculiar...

...to the division of labor in that pin factory where "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," a process "divided into about eighteen distinct operations." Smith was sanguine about this because...

...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...

...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, a third cuts it ... it is even a trade by itself to put them into paper; and the important business of making a pin...

...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 requires two or three distinet operations; to put it on, is a...

...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...