The Wealth of Nations

What type of manufacturing business did Smith use to illustrate the effects of the division of labor?

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Smith used the business of pin making to illustrate the effects of the division of labor.

To take an example, therefore, from a very trifling manufacture; but one in which the division of labour has been very often taken notice of, the trade of the pin-maker; a workman not educated to this business (which the division of labour has rendered a distinct trade), nor acquainted with the use of the machinery employed in it (to the invention of which the same division of labour has probably given occasion), could scarce, perhaps, with his utmost industry, make one pin in a day, and certainly could not make twenty.

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