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# Manufactures
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## Definition
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The sector of production in which raw materials are transformed into finished
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goods through a series of distinct operations, each typically performed by
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specialised workers. Smith contrasts manufactures with agriculture, noting that
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the former admits of far greater subdivision of labour and separation of trades,
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and therefore exhibits far greater improvements in productive power.
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## Source Chapter
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Book I, Chapter 1: "Of the Division of Labour"
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## Context
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Manufactures serve as the primary setting for Smith's analysis of the division
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of labour. The pin factory is a manufacture; so are the linen, woollen, and
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hardware trades he references. Smith uses the greater divisibility of
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manufacturing work to explain why rich countries excel more conspicuously over
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poor countries in manufactures than in agriculture.
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## Economic Domain
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Production
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