workmen, that it is impossible to collect them all into the same work|house. We can seldom see more, at one time, than those employed in one single branch. Though in them, therefore, the work may really be divided into a much greater number of parts, than in those of a more trifling nature, the division is not near so obvious, and has accordingly been much less observed.To take an example, therefore, from a very trifling manufac|ture; but one in which the division of labour has been very often taken notice of, the trade of the pin-maker; a workman not edu|cated 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. But in the way in which this business is now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar trade, but it is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for re|ceiving the head; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations; to put it on, is a peculiar business, to whiten the pins is another; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper; and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, di|vided into about eighteen distinct operations, which in some manu|factories are all performed by distinct hands, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them. I have seen a small manufactory of this kind where ten men only were employed, and where some of them consequently performed two or three distinct operations. But though they were very poor, and there|fore but indifferently accommodated with the necessary machinery, they could, when they exerted themselves, make among them about 0