GGR221H1 Lecture Notes - Meat Packing Industry, Mass Production, Scientific Management
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Wedgwood kept diving the production into more and more specialist labour with less skilled , cheaper labour. Josiah wedgwood"s effort to standardize the production of pots by splitting the production process into smaller and smaller tasks is a process known as the division of labour. Adam smith and the division of labour. Dexterity of employees improves and this contributes to an increase in speed. Time is lost when an employee has to change from one type of work to another. Machines permitting cheaper and faster production can replace labour. One location is used for the hq, another for research and development. This spatial division of labour began with manufacturers establishing speciali st units that were contiguously located, but soon developed into a more dispe rsed spatial division of labour. Different parts of the production process were located close to either sources of raw materials, cheap labour or the market place.
