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Old 22-10-2007, 12:46 PM   #45 (permalink)
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I had forgotten about this thread!

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Originally Posted by The Guvnah View Post
"The division of labour in pin manufacturing,
(and the great increase in the quantity of work that results)"

For which read;

The end of the artisan at the altar of productivity, the reduction of the worker to a unit of unthinking, deskilled, repetitive production, the reference in the parentheses concerns only the benefits accruing to the owner of that pin-works. Where do you think the phrase 'pin-money' originates?
If you think those involved in the manufacture of computer chips are unskilled then you are severely deluded. Workers in modern factories are highly skilled.

I wonder how well the British economy would be doing if we reverted back to basement factories and only family businesses?

I can enter into a quote war too (and mine will actually be relevant to the position - unlike Rothschild's), however, it gets us nowhere.
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