ON THE DIVISION OF LABOUR.
185
NAME OF THE PROCESS. | Time for making Twelve Thousand Pins. |
Cost of making Twelve Thousand Pins. |
Workman usually earns per Day. |
Expense of Tools and Materials. | ||
Hours. | Pence. | Pence. | Pence. | |||
1. | Wire | . . . | . . . | . . . | 24.75 | |
2. | Straightening and Cutting | 1.2 | .5 | 4.5 | . . . | |
Coarse Pointing | 1.2 | .625 | 10.0 | . . . | ||
Turning Wheel[1] | 1.2 | .875 | 7.0 | . . . | ||
3. | Fine Pointing | .8 | .5 | 9.375 | . . . | |
Turning Wheel | 1.2 | .5 | 4.75 | . . . | ||
Cutting off pointed Ends | .6 | .375 | 7.5 | . . . | ||
Turning Spiral | .5 | .125 | 3.0 | . . . | ||
4. | Cutting off Heads | .8 | .375 | 5.625 | . . . | |
Fuel to anneal ditto | . . . | . . . | . . . | .125 | ||
5. | Heading | 12.0 | .333 | 4.25 | . . . | |
6. | Tartar for Cleaning | . . . | . . . | . . . | .5 | |
Tartar for Whitening | . . . | . . . | . . . | .5 | ||
7. | Papering | 4.8 | .5 | 2.0 | . . . | |
Paper | . . . | . . . | . . . | 1.0 | ||
Wear of Tools | . . . | . . . | . . . | 2.0 | ||
24.3 | 4.708 |
(238.) It appears from the analysis we have given of the art of pin-making, that it occupies rather more than seven hours and a half of time, for ten different individuals working in succession on the same material, to convert it into a pound of pins; and that the
- ↑ The great expense of turning the wheel appears to have arisen from the person so occupied being unemployed during half his time, whilst the pointer went to another manufactory.