Though in them, therefore, the work may really be divided into a much greater number of parts, than in those of a more trifling nature, the division is not near so obvious, and has accordingly been much less observed.

We can seldom see more, at one time, than those employed in one single branch. Workmen, that it is impossible to collect them all into the same work|house. In those great manufactures, on the contrary, which are destined to supply the great wants of the great body of the people, every different branch of the work employs so great a number of It is com|monly supposed to be carried furthest in some very trifling ones not perhaps that it really is carried further in them than in others of more importance: but in those trifling manufactures which are destined to supply the small wants of but a small number of people, the whole number of workmen must necessarily be small and those employed in every different branch of the work can often be collected into the same workhouse, and placed at once under the view of the spec|tator. THE effects of the division of labour, in the general business of society, will be more easily understood, by considering in what manner it operates in some particular manufactures. THE greatest improvements in the productive powers of La|bour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judg|ment with which it is any where directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.

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