 By the infirmity of human nature it happens, that the more skilful the workman, the more self-willed and intractable he is apt to become, and, of course, the less fit a component of a mechanical system, in which, by occasional irregularities, he may do...  The Mechanic's Register - Page 1011838Full view - About this book
 | Andrew Ure - Factory system - 1835 - 504 pages
...nature it happens, that the more skilful the workman, the more self-willed and intractable he is apt to become, and, of course, the less fit a component of...exercise of vigilance and dexterity, — faculties, when concentred to one process, speedily brought to perfection in the young. In the infancy of mechanical... | |
 | Railroad engineering - 1838 - 712 pages
...nature it happens, that the more skilful the workman, the more self-willed and intractible he is apt to become, and, of course, the less fit a component of...through the union of capital and science, to reduce the taek of his workpeople to the exercise of vigilance and dexterity, — faculties, when concentred to... | |
 | Emery Edward Neff - 1926 - 458 pages
...nature it happens, that the more skillful the workman, the more self-willed and intractable he is apt to become, and, of course, the less fit a component of...exercise of vigilance and dexterity, — faculties, when concentred to one process, speedily brought to perfection in the young. ... It is, in fact, the constant... | |
 | Karl Marx - Capital - 1906 - 872 pages
...happens that the more skilful the workman, the more self-willed and intractable he is apt to becomej and of course the less fit a component of a mechanical system in which ... he may do great damage to the whole."1 Hence throughout the whole manufacturing period there runs... | |
 | Andrew Ure - Political Science - 1967 - 504 pages
...nature it happens, that the more skilful the workman, the more self-willed and intractable he is apt to become, and, of course, the less fit a component of...exercise of vigilance and dexterity, — faculties, when concentred to one process, speedily brought to perfection in the young. In the infancy of mechanical... | |
 | Klaus Krippendorff - Computers - 1979 - 552 pages
...of human nature ... the more skillful the workman, the more self,willed and intractable he is apt to become, and, of course, the less fit a component of...irregularities, he may do great damage to the whole" [38: 20] . In 1831, Ure patented a "self,acting heat govemor", a thermostatic device based on the thermocouple.... | |
 | Maxine Berg - Business & Economics - 1982 - 396 pages
...worker. In his view, the more skilled the worker, the more 'self willed and intractable' he became, 'the less fit a component of a mechanical system,...occasional irregularities, he may do great damage to the whole'.7* Ure's 'philosophy of manufactures' was an exposition of the general principles by which industry... | |
 | Jürgen Bönig - Assembly-line methods - 1993 - 570 pages
...nature it happens, that the more skilful the workman, the more self-willed and intractable he is apt to become, and, of course, the less fit a component of a mechanical system, in which, by occasional irregularitles, he may do great damage to the whole. The grand object therefore of the modern manufacturer... | |
 | Alexander J. Field - Business & Economics - 378 pages
...Ure, "it happens that the more skillful the workman, the more se'f-willed and intractable he is apt to become, and of course the less fit a component of a mechanical system in which he may do great damage to the whole." Hence the complaint that the workers lack discipline runs through... | |
 | David Brett - Business & Economics - 1996 - 188 pages
...it happens, that the more skilful the workman, the more self-willed and intractable he is liable to become, and of course, the less fit a component of a mechanical system . . . The grand object therefore ... is to reduce the task of workpeople to the exercise of vigilance... | |
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