首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Adam Smith, writing in the 1770s, was the first person to see the importance of the division of labor and to explain part of its
Adam Smith, writing in the 1770s, was the first person to see the importance of the division of labor and to explain part of its
admin
2017-08-15
31
问题
Adam Smith, writing in the 1770s, was the first person to see the importance of the division of labor and to explain part of its advantages. He gives as an example the process by which pins were made in England.
"One man draws out the wire; another strengthens it; a third cuts it; a fourth points it; a fifth grinds it at the top to prepare it to receive the head. To make the head requires two or three operations. To put it on is a separate operation, to polish the pins is another. And the important business of making pins is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen operations, which in some factories are all performed by different people, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them."
Ten men, Smith said, in this way, turned out twelve pounds of pins a day or about 4,800 pins per worker. But if all of them had worked separately and independently without division of labor, none of them could have made twenty pins in a day and perhaps not even one.
There can be no doubt that division of labor is an efficient way of organizing work. Fewer people can make more pins. Adam Smith saw this but he also took it for granted that division of labor is in itself responsible for economic growth and development and that it accounts for the difference between expanding economies and those that stand still. But division of labor adds nothing new; it only enables people to produce more of what they already have.
Adam Smith mentioned the number 4,800 in order to ______.
选项
A、show the advantages of the division of labor
B、show the advantages of the old craft system
C、emphasize how powerful the individual worker was
D、emphasize the importance of increased production
答案
A
解析
本题可参照此段下一句:without division of labor,none of them could have made twenty pins in a day and perhaps not even one。从中可知,作者用这一数字显示分工的优越性。因此A项为正确答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/KRmYFFFM
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Readthefollowingpassagecarefullyandthenparaphrasethenumberedandunderlinedparts.("Paraphrase"means"toexplainthe
Readthefollowingpassagecarefullyandthenparaphrasethenumberedandunderlinedparts.("Paraphrase"means"toexplainthe
Evenbeforeheis80,theagingpersonmayundergoanotheridentitycrisislikethatofadolescence.Perhapstherehadalsobeen
Evenbeforeheis80,theagingpersonmayundergoanotheridentitycrisislikethatofadolescence.Perhapstherehadalsobeen
Untilmeninventedwaysofstayingunderwaterformorethanafewminutes,thewondersoftheworldbelowthesurfaceofthesea
Untilmeninventedwaysofstayingunderwaterformorethanafewminutes,thewondersoftheworldbelowthesurfaceofthesea
AfricanAmericanwomen’ssearchforsocietalacceptanceoftenencompassesstrugglebetweennaturalandsociallyconstructedidea
随机试题
男孩,4岁,来门诊就诊。6个月起发现患儿平日活动后气促,口周发绀。查体:体重13kg,胸骨左缘第3肋间可闻及Ⅰ级喷射性杂音,收缩期杂音,肺动脉第二音减弱。此患儿若诊断为法洛四联症,则
药物的鉴别方法常采用
良性肿瘤的临床特点中,哪项是错误的
新生儿败血症的产前感染的途径是( )。新生儿败血症的产时感染的途径是( )。
《会计法》规定,用电子计算机软件生成的会计资料,必须符合()的规定。
一种电子元件的正常寿命服从λ=0.1的指数分布,则这个电子元件可用时间在100小时之内的概率为()。
在对使用五大湖中两个湖的10处沙滩的8000多人的调查研究中,多伦多大学的生态学家们发现,游泳的人中呼吸道疾病和胃肠疾病的患病率达69.6‰,而没有游泳的人这两类病的患病率为29.5‰。从上述数据能最恰当地得出如下哪一结论?
在数据库设计中,将E-R图转换成关系数据模型的过程属于()。
Whatisthesubjectoftheshow?
ComputersoftwareAsmoreandmorecompaniesareusingtheInternettodobusiness,MarkWilliamsexplainshowanewsoftwa
最新回复
(
0
)