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# The Workman
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## Definition
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The individual labourer who performs productive work, whether in manufacturing
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or agriculture. In the context of the division of labour, the workman is the
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operative unit whose dexterity, time, and inventiveness are the channels through
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which specialisation increases output. Smith portrays the workman both as a
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beneficiary of the division of labour (higher output) and as its agent
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(inventing machinery through focused attention).
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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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The workman appears throughout the chapter as the primary actor: the pin-maker,
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the nailer, the country weaver, the boy at the fire engine. Smith attributes
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both the productive gains and many mechanical inventions to ordinary workmen.
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## Economic Domain
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Production
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