...industry, make one pin in a day, and certainly could not make twenty. But in the way in which this business is now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar...number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth...

...have been the effects of the division of labour." * Pin making, for example, is a peculiar trade which is " divided into a number of branches of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades." As a result each man produces at least 240 times as many pins as if he worked...

...of pins instead of a handful of pins a day (1776/1976. 14f): "But in the way in which this business is now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar...number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth...

...industry, make one pin a day, and certainly could not make twenty. But in the way in which this business is now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar...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...

...separate skills. Take his favourite example of pin manufacture: ... in the way in which this business is now carried on. not only the whole work is a peculiar...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...

...industry, make one pin in a day, and certainly could not make twenty. But in the way in which this business is now carried on. not only the whole work is a peculiar...number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straights it , a third cuts it, a fourth...

...industry, make one pin in a day, and certainly could not make twenty. But in the way in which this business is now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar...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...

...industry, make one pin in a day, and certainly could not make twenty. But in the way in which this business is now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar...number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straights it. a third cuts it. a fourth...

...one pin in a day. But in the way in which this business is now carried on, not only is the whole work a peculiar trade, but it is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part likewise are peculiar trades ... and the important business of making a pin is divided into about eighteen...

...course of a day's labor. In contrast, he continues, the way in which this business is now carried on ... it is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth...