...recognized the deadening effects of such a division of labor and anticipated some of Marx's criticism: The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are, perhaps always the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention...

...of the greater part of men," says Adam Smith, "are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations . . . has no occasion to exert his understanding. .... He generally becomes as stupid and ignorant...

...Adam Smith saw this problem, and his description of it is striking: by their ordinary employments. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations . . . has no occasion to exert his understanding. . . . He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of...

...significant negative impact on the workers when the division becomes extreme: "The man whose life is spent performing a few simple operations, of which the effects...understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out the expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit...

...intellectual faculties and even requested the government to intervene in the matter: The man whose life is spent in performing a few simple operations,...which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his intervention in finding our expedients...

...gloomier view of his pin factory, as a soul-destroying enterprise calling for government interference. ays more moderate in its emissions of paper money than any other of our co he writes, "... generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to...