On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures

Babbage, C. (1832). On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1832

Link

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL42816975Wmatched

Cited from

economics_finance

Cited by

1 citation across 1 artifact.

Primes

• Division of Labor
  • The historical transition from agrarian household production to industrial factory production; Babbage (1832) extending Smith's analysis with the explicit observation that division of labor allows each sub-task to be performed by the cheapest worker capable of it, generating cost reductions independent of skill gains.

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