im doing a dbq right now and im really stuck. here it is: "I have seen a small factory of this kind where ten men only were employed, and where some of them preformed 2 or 3 distinct operations... they could... make among them... upwards of 48000 pins a day... but if they had all worked seperatley and independentley... they certainly could not each of them made 20 in a day.
The question is, why were workers in factories so productive?
2007-11-19 07:07:11 · 2 answers · asked by volcomstone628 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
They had to be... they needed as much money as they could get, considering they came from nothing.
hope i helped
2007-11-19 07:15:39 · answer #1 · answered by livelaughlove1379 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alone, each worker would probably have made one pin at a time, start to finish, thus moving from one phase of the job to the next over and over. In even a small factory, they could set up a kind of assembly line, with each worker performing one or two steps of the job over and over and handing the product on to the next worker. Here's an analogy: suppose you have to collate and staple many copies of a long report (and the copier doesn't collate). You could take a page from each stack, put them in order, and staple, then repeat the process; or you could set those stacks out in a line, get someone to stand by each one and add a page to the pages that are passed to him, and have someone at the end to staple.
2007-11-19 07:28:34 · answer #2 · answered by aida 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋