...been divided into a number of specialized acts in which "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," etc., a group of ten persons could make nearly 50,000 pins in a day. Since Smith wrote before the industrial...

...often taken notice of, the trade of the pinmaker. . . . One man draws out the wire, another straights 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...

...Smith chooses, however, is the manufacture of pins ("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," and so on). Fourier's brave new world, by contrast, is as arcadian as Marie Antoinette's old one.40...

...completing the whole range of tasks; if, as he described it, '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 . . . and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct...

...the pin maker is divided into a number of operations: "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, . . ." (4). In this example, it is clear that a "transaction" takes place each time a pin changes hands...

...in 1 776 The story unfolds in a pin factory in eighteenth-century Britain. There, one man draws out the wire. Another straightens it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, and so on through eighteen distinct operations. An unskilled worker on his own "could scarce, perhaps,...

...which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds...to put it on is a peculiar business, to whiten the ' 425 ' pin is another; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper; and the important...

...Wealth of Nations, Smith comments on a pin factory: "One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds...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...

...phrase "division of labor" in describing the various tasks involved in making pins: One man draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third cuts it,...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...

...performative act which in a certain way produces its own subject. — Jacques Derrida One man draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third cuts it,...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...