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" That the master manufacturer, by dividing the work to be executed into different processes, each requiring different degrees of skill, or of force, can purchase exactly that precise quantity of both which is necessary for each process, whereas if the... "
Knowing Machines: Essays on Technical Change - Page 32
by Donald A. MacKenzie - 1998 - 338 pages
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The Factory

Jonathan Thayer Lincoln - Factories - 1912 - 138 pages
...resulting from the division of labor are evident. When the whole work in any art is executed by one person, that person must possess sufficient skill to perform the most difficult, and sufficient strength to perform the most laborious, of the processes ; but by employing a division of labor several persons...
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Scientific Management: A Collection of the More Significant Articles ...

Clarence Bertrand Thompson - Industrial efficiency - 1914 - 916 pages
...work to be executed into different processes, each requiring different degrees of skill and force, can purchase exactly that precise quantity of both...laborious, of the operations into which the art is divided. 6. It appears, however, that another principle is the basic one in the rise of industry. It is the...
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Principles of Economics: An Introductory Volume

Alfred Marshall - Economics - 1916 - 916 pages
...be iv, u, 7. executed into different processes, each requiring different degrees of skill or force, can purchase exactly that precise quantity of both...the most laborious of the operations into which the work is divided." The economy of production requires not only that each person should be employed constantly...
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Dictionary of Political Economy, Volume 1

Sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave, Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave - Economics - 1901 - 824 pages
...by dividing the work into different processes, each requiring different degrees of skill and force, can purchase exactly that precise quantity of both...of the operations into which the art is divided." In other words, advantage must be taken of the several individual capabilities of the workmen, intellectual...
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Business Administration

Leon Carroll Marshall - Business - 1921 - 942 pages
...work to be executed into different processes, each requiring different degrees of skill and force, can purchase exactly that precise quantity of both...laborious, of the operations into which the art is divided. It appears, however, that another principle is the basic one in the rise of industry. It is the transference...
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Frederick W. Taylor: Father of Scientific Management, Volume 1

Frank Barkley Copley - Industrial efficiency - 1923 - 534 pages
...by dividing the work into different processes, each requiring different degrees of skill and force, can purchase exactly that precise quantity of both...the most laborious of the operations into which the work is divided. Here appears the economic principle, practiced by none more consistently than Taylor,...
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Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy, Volume 1

Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave, Henry Higgs - Economics - 1926 - 954 pages
...by dividing the work into different processes, each requiring different degrees of skill and force, can purchase exactly that precise quantity of both...of the operations into which the art is divided." In other words, advantage must be taken of the several individual capabilities of the workmen, intellectual...
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy

Karl Marx - Capital - 1906 - 872 pages
...different processes, each requiring different degrees of skill or of force, can purchase exactly tkat precise quantity of both which is necessary for•...the most laborious of the operations into which the article is divided." (Ch. Babbage. 1. c., ch. xviii) • For instance, abnormal development of some...
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Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer

Anthony Hyman - Biography & Autobiography - 1985 - 348 pages
...work to be executed into different processes, each requiring different degrees of skill or of force, can purchase exactly that precise quantity of both...of the operations into which the art is divided." ' During the period following the first reform act the educated classes became more interested in visiting...
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Classes, Power and Conflict: Classical and Contemporary Debates

Anthony Giddens, David Held - Social Science - 1982 - 664 pages
...work to be executed into different processes, each requiring different degrees of skill or of force, can purchase exactly that precise quantity of both...laborious, of the operations into which the art is divided. 13 To put this all-important principle another way, in a society based upon the purchase and sale of...
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