...is slow at the work. But in an efficient pin factory '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 through about eighteen specialized operations. By those means the output of pins per worker...

...day, a team of 10 workers cooperating in a shop where the labor had been divided, where "one draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it... and so on, can produce upwards of 48,000 pins in a day."9 Smith, however, talked about the downside...

...cite Adam Smith's famous hymn to the division of labor in that pin factory where "one man draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third cuts it,...fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head," a process "divided into about eighteen distinct operations." Smith was sanguine about this because...

...'classical,' from the " trade of the pin-maker." He shows how " 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," how " to make the head requires two or three distinct operations," how " to put it on is a peculiar...

...greater part are likewise peeuliar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third euts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for reeeiving the head ; to make the head requires two or three distinet operations; to put it on, is a...

...factory. He shows that work can be more efficient when "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...", as workers become more proficient and more productive in the respective tasks. He concludes that firms...

...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...requires two or three distinct operations; to put in on, is a peculiar business, to whiten pins is another; it is even a trade by itself to put them...

...into a numher ot hranches, ol which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third cuts it,...three distinct operations; to put it on, is a peculiar husiness, to whiten the pins is another; it is even a trade hv itself to put them into the paper; and...

...Smith described the division of labour applied to pin-making in the following terms: One man draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third cuts it,...receiving the head; to make the head requires two or three distinctive operations; to put it on is a peculiar business, to whiten the pins is another; it is a...

...virtues of dividing tasks and links such developments to general material progress: One man draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third cuts it,...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...