 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1812
...from one fpecies of work to another; and laftly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many, Firft, the improvement of the dexterity of the workman neceflarily increafes the quantity of the work... | |
 | Samuel Read (of Roslin.) - 1829 - 444 pages
...of work to another; and, thirdly, it gives rise to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.* On the first of these heads, Dr Smith observes,—" A common smith, who, though accustomed to handle... | |
 | G. Robertson - Economics - 1830 - 490 pages
...species of work to another; and thirdly, to the " invention of a great number of machines, which " facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man " to do the work of many." " First, the improvement of the dexterity of the " workman necessarily increases the quantity of "... | |
 | Gill's scientific, technological and microscopic repository - 1830 - 420 pages
...one species of work to another; and, lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines, which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many. First, the improvement of the dexterity of the workman, necessarily increases the quantity of work... | |
 | Charles Babbage - Industrial arts - 1835 - 450 pages
...species of work to another ; and, " lastly, to the invention of a great number of ma" chines which facilitate and abridge labour, and " enable one man to do the work of many." Now, although all these are important causes, and each has its influence on the result ; yet it appears... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - Economics - 1837 - 1158 pages
...from one species of work to another ; and lastly, to Ihc invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.' " Smith was the first writer who laid much stress on the division of labour. The force and the variety... | |
 | United States - 1842 - 498 pages
...one species of work to another ; and lastly, by the invention of a great number of machines, which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many." When capital has thus, by the progress of science and art, added the faculty of a powerful agent of... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Business & Economics - 1848 - 622 pages
...from one species of work to another; and lastly, the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man...does not follow that because a thing has been done oftener it will be done better. That depends on the intelligence of the workman, and on the degree... | |
 | Political science - 1848 - 476 pages
...from one speck* of work to another;" and, Srdly. the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work off many :" to which may be added, 4thly, the separation which it causes between labour and the direction... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1852 - 672 pages
...from one species of work to another; and lastly, the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man...does not follow that because a thing has been done oftener it will be done better. That depends on the intelligence of the workman, and on the degree... | |
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facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many." Of these, the increase of dexterity of the individual workman is the most obvious and universal. It does not follow that because a thing has been done 
