Charles Babbage

On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures

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Produktbeschreibung

On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures is a treatise on labor economics and how to reduce the cost of workers by dividing tasks based on skill level. In his Preface, Babbage claimed that the work was a direct "consequence" of his supervising the creation of "the Calculating-Engine." To conduct research for the machine, he visited workshops and factories throughout England and Europe and noted their inefficiencies. As a result, he wrote the tract on labor and described what is known as the Babbage Principle-that by only assigning tasks designed for their skill level and pay grade, workers could be more efficient and costs cut. Though criticized by theorists like Karl Marx, the principle is often used today in management styles and workplaces. CHARLES BABBAGE (1791-1871) was a British engineer, inventor, mathematician, and philosopher. He is considered the "father of the computer" for pioneering the concept of a programmable computer and his invention of the first mechanical computer, which he called the "difference engine." Babbage made noteworthy contributions to cryptography, engineering, economics, and the modern postal system in England.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cosimo Classics
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9781616407605
• ISBN-10: 1616407603
• Artikelnr.: 37027986

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. Sources of the advantages arriving from machinery and manufactures
2. Accumulating power
3. Regulating power
4. Increase and diminution of velocity
5. Extending time of action of forces
6. Saving time in natural operations
7. Exerting forces too great for human power
8. Registering operations
9. Economy of materials employed
10. Of the identity of the work when it is of the same kind
11. Of copying
12. On the method of observing manufactories
13. On the difference between making and manufacturing
14. On the influence of verification upon price
15. On the influence of durability on price
16. On price, as measured by money
17. Of raw materials
18. Of the division of labour
19. On the division of mental labour
20. On the separate cost of each process in a manufacture
21. On the causes and consequences of large factories
22. On the position of great factories
23. On over-manufacturing
24. Inquiries previous to commencing any manufactory
25. On contriving machinery
26. Proper circumstances for the application of machinery
27. On the duration of machinery
28. On combination amongst masters or workmen against each other
29. On combinations of masters against the public
30. On the effect of taxes
31. On the exportation of machinery
32. On the future prospects of manufactures, as connected with science.