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| Andrew Ure - Factory system - 1835 - 504 pages
...manufacturing industry. In fact, the division, or rather adaptation of labour to the different talents of men, is little thought of in factory employment . On the...irregularities of many kinds, and it is placed in charge of a peculiar mechanism, so self-regulating, that a child may superintend it. Thus, — to take an... | |
| Industrial arts - 1838 - 348 pages
...manufacturing industry. In fact, the division, or rather adaptation of labor to the different talents of men, is little thought of in factory employment. On the contrary, wherever a process rc*jukes peculiar dexterity and steadiness of hand, it is withdrawn as soon as possible from the cunning... | |
| John Atkinson Hobson - Capital - 1901 - 436 pages
...that machinery tends to reduce the workers to a common level of skill, or even of un-skill. " Whenever a process requires peculiar dexterity and steadiness...irregularities of many kinds, and it is placed in charge of a peculiar mechanism, so self-regulating that a child can superintend it"1 That this is not true... | |
| William James Ashley - Industrial efficiency - 1922 - 36 pages
...what Babbage had just been saying : ' The . . . adaptation of labour to the different talents of men is little thought of in factory employment. On the...is withdrawn as soon as possible from the cunning (sic) workman, who is prone to irregularities of many kinds, and it is placed in charge of a peculiar... | |
| Karl Marx - Capital - 1906 - 872 pages
...results."8 "Whenever a process requires peculiar dexterity and steadiness of hand, it is withdrawnj as soon as possible, from the cunning workman, who...irregularities of many kinds, and it is placed in charge of a peculiar mechanism^ so self-regulating that a child can superintend it."4 "On the automatic plan... | |
| Andrew Ure - Political Science - 1967 - 504 pages
...manufacturing industry. In fact, the division, or rather adaptation of labour to the different talents of men, is little thought of in factory employment. On the...irregularities of many kinds, and it is placed in charge of a peculiar mechanism, so self-regulating, that a child may superintend it. Thus, — to take an... | |
| Karl Marx - Philosophy - 1973 - 254 pages
...and although sometimes apparently of no great moment, have somewhat important results."8 "Whenever a process requires peculiar dexterity and steadiness...irregularities of many kinds, and it is placed in charge of a peculiar mechanism, so self-regulating that a child can superintend it."9 "On the its price by... | |
| Maxine Berg - Business & Economics - 1982 - 396 pages
...a self regulated moving force."1 In Ure's factory the division of labour was a thing of the past : wherever a process requires peculiar dexterity and...irregularities of many kinds, and it is placed in charge of a peculiar mechanism, so self regulating, that a child may superintend it ... on the automatic plan,... | |
| Karl Marx - History - 1986 - 354 pages
...and although sometimes apparently of no great moment, have somewhat important results."2 "Whenever a process requires peculiar dexterity and steadiness...irregularities of many kinds, and it is placed in charge of a peculiar mechanism, so self-regulating that a child can superintend it."3 "On the automatic plan... | |
| Edmund Byrne - Business & Economics - 1992 - 358 pages
...mere overlookers of machines." But even this partial control of the labor process benefits management: "[W]herever a process requires peculiar dexterity...irregularities of many kinds, and it is placed in charge of a peculiar mechanism, so self-regulating that a child might superintend it." In this way, "when... | |
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