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"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 . . . nor acquainted with the use of the machinery employed in it . . . 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 . . . 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 receiving the head; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations . . . and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations.
"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 [and] could, when they exerted themselves . . . make among them upwards of forty-eight thousand pins in a day. Each person, therefore, making a tenth part of forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all [worked separately], they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day."
The Division of Labour (1776) , Adam Smith
-In eighteenth-century Britain, which of the following contributed MOST directly to industrial growth?

Definitions:

Demand

The measure of products or services that consumers are inclined and have the financial capacity to buy at assorted prices during a designated interval.

Exchange Rate

the price at which one currency can be exchanged for another, influencing international trade and investment.

Inflation Rate

The rate at which the general level of prices for goods and services is rising, and subsequently, purchasing power is falling.

Demand

The desire and ability of consumers to purchase goods or services at given prices.