...invention of the division of labour ; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men: — Divided into mere...but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or ^Jiie head of a nail. Now it is a good and desirable thing, "Truly, to make many pins in a day ; but...

...invention of the division of labour ; only we give it a false name. /It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided ; but the men : — Divided into mere...nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a phi or the head of a nail. Now it is a good and desirable thing, truly, to make many pins in a day...

...the exercise of thought and intelligence unnecessary. "It is not, truly speaking, the labour which is divided, but the men : divided into mere segments...making the point of a pin or the head of a nail." This is really the ground of Buskin's antagonism to machine-made goods, and his strong preference for...

...into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left is not enough to make a pin or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of the pin or the head of the nail. Now it is a good and desirable thing, truly to make many pins in a...

...worker suffers. Ruskin says: — It is not, truly speaking, the labor which is divided but the man — divided into mere segments of men — broken into...in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail. 3. Many employers do not want apprentices. Others say that they cannot get them. Others, again, complain...

...It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided, but the men, — divided into mere segmentary men, — broken into small fragments and crumbs of...making the point of a pin or the head of a nail." But we must also remember that divided labour, and the cheapness due to divided labour, have as result...

...industry because it degrades men to machines. The trouble with labor to-day, he declared, is that men are "divided into mere segments of men — broken into...making the point of a pin or the head of a nail." It is this degradation, he continues, "which, more than any other evil of the times, is leading the...

...invention of the division of labour : only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men - Divided into mere segments...a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of the pin or the head of the nail. . . And the great cry that rises from all over manufacturing cities,...

...cretinize workers, stunting their intellectual, moral, and physical development. Thus argued John Ruskin: It is not, truly speaking, the labor that is divided;...in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail (Stones of Venice, vol. 2, vi, 16). Adam Smith and Karl Marx said as much, too, but while the Capitalist...

...invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided, but the men: — Divided into mere...making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.... (Ruskin, 1851, cited by Ostberg, 1986). The dehumanization theme has been repeated many times since...