 | George Pierce Baker - Debates and debating - 1895 - 436 pages
...number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third cuts it, a fourth...two or three distinct operations ; to put it on is a peculiar business; to whiten the pins is another ; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the... | |
 | George Pierce Baker - Debates and debating - 1895 - 436 pages
...number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third cuts it, a fourth...two or three distinct operations ; to put it on is a peculiar business ; to whiten the pins is another ; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the... | |
 | George Pierce Baker - Debates and debating - 1895 - 438 pages
...the greater part are likewise peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straightens Lt, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds...two or three distinct operations ; to put it on is a peculiar business ; to whiten the pins is another ; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the... | |
 | Herbert Joseph Davenport - Economics - 1896 - 408 pages
...number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straightens it ; a third cuts it, a fourth...two or three distinct operations ; 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... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1896 - 844 pages
...economy is that of pin-making as given by Adam Smith: 'One man draw» out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds...two or three distinct operations ; to put it on is a peculiar business ; to whiten the pin is another; it is even a tnnle by itself to put them into a paper;... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1896 - 578 pages
...But as the manufacture was carried on in his day, by division of labor one man draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third cuts it, a fourth...fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head, and so on, dividing the labor up among ten men, and eighteen different operations. Those ten men thus... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1896 - 570 pages
...But as the manufacture was carried on in his day, by division of labor one man draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third cuts it, a fourth...fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head, and so on, dividing the labor up among ten men, and eighteen different operations. Those ten men thus... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1896 - 564 pages
...But as the manufacture was carried on in his day, by division of labor one man draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third cuts it, a fourth...fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head, and so on, dividing the labor up among ten men, and eighteen different operations. Those ten men thus... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 868 pages
...illustration in Adam Smith's description of pin-making: ' 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 bead; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations; to put it on is a peculiar business;... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1898 - 964 pages
...Smith's description of pin-making: ' ' One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third c, ;s it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top...two or three distinct operations; 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;... | |
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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; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations; to put it on is a peculiar business; to whiten the... 
