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" This great increase of the quantity of work, which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman;... "
The Standard Library Cyclopedia of Political, Constitutional, Statistical ... - Page 763
1848
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The Economic Theory of Structure and Change

Mauro Baranzini, Roberto Scazzieri - Business & Economics - 1990 - 376 pages
...circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and...
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Work, Inc.: A Philosophical Inquiry

Edmund Byrne - Business & Economics - 1992 - 358 pages
...attributes first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and...
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Adam Smith: Critical Assessments, Volume 3

John Cunningham Wood - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 664 pages
...different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and...
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A Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution: The Abbé Sieyes and What is the Third ...

William H. Sewell (Jr.) - History - 1994 - 252 pages
...increases in productivity for three reasons: "the increase in dexterity in every particular workman; . . . the saving of time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and . . . the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labor."45 Sieyes,...
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On Moral Business: Classical and Contemporary Resources for Ethics in ...

Max L. Stackhouse, Dennis P. McCann, Preston N. Williams, Shirley J. Roels - Business & Economics - 1995 - 1002 pages
...circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the invention of a great nomber of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and...
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Social Evolution in Ants

Andrew F.G. Bourke, Nigel R. Franks - Nature - 1995 - 548 pages
...circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and...
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Radical Political Economy: Explorations in Alternative Economic Analysis

Victor D. Lippit - Business & Economics - 1996 - 416 pages
...of set-up time, there is nothing to differentiate agriculture from industry. To save "the time that is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another" it is necessary only to continue in a single activity long enough that the set-up time becomes an insignificant...
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Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective

Joyce Oldham Appleby - Knowledge, Sociology of - 1996 - 578 pages
...circumstances,- first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman,- secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another,- and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and...
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Lauderdale's Notes on Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations

James Maitland Earl of Lauderdale - Business & Economics - 1996 - 184 pages
...circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and...
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The Economic Nature of the Firm: A Reader

Louis Putterman, Randy Kroszner - Business & Economics - 1996 - 404 pages
...circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour and...
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