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A 6 page paper discussing Smith's account of the origination of worker specialization, or division of labor. It was the worker who devised improvements to make his job easier and more productive. The goal of each small invention was not to contribute to the good of society or to propel the workman into a class of 'genius,' but rather to better individuals' living conditions. Produce more, earn more, purchase more goods to make life more comfortable and enjoyable. It is a common concept today, but new when Adam Smith proposed it in The Wealth of Nations. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Smiths concept of division of labor has been analyzed in terms ranging from capitalist decadence and contradiction (West 83), to comparisons of relative types of "genius" (Tenger and Trolander 169)
to being the root cause for the need to re-engineer organizations. Boje, Rosile, Dennehy and Summers (1997) claim that such worker displacement is "in the end, just another reinvention
of Adam Smiths division of labor" (631). Regardless of the negative connotations others have chosen to attach to Smiths concept of division of
labor over the centuries, "Adam Smith placed the concept of division of labor at the center of his discussions on economic growth" (Hosseini 653). West (1999) writes that "The
positive effect of the division of labor on output and production cost is one of the most fundamental assumptions in economics" (82). In
describing the processes required for the manufacture of a single pin, Smith listed twenty specific steps. There were ten workers producing 48,000 pins daily in Smiths factory of example.
Though each could be thought of as producing one-tenth the total production, Smith maintains that if each pin had been constructed from start to finish by individual workers, each
worker certainly could not lay claim to 4,800 pins daily and likely would have had difficulty in producing only twenty (Smith 89). Smiths
description of the pin factory and the division of labor found within it could well be a basis for Demings ultimate concepts that collectively came to be called Total Quality
Management. Smith certainly had no concept of the assembly line that Deming used as the basis for his concept of manufacturing, but the processes and results were the same.
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