1 Sept. 1801

Polit. Economy

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But this supposes that the number of hands thus rendered superfluous with

/unnecessary in/ regard to the production of the given/standing/ quantity of

work are employ'd with the same degree of efficiency, or at any rate employ'd.

If not employ'd at all no encrease at all in the quantity of wealth will be

brought about by the encrease in the efficiency of the mass of labour which

continues to be employ'd: if employ'd but employ'd with a less degree of

efficiency, then the fresh quantity of wealth thus produced by the expelled

hands will fail of being equal to the quantity produced by the hands retained

hands, in a degree proportioned to what the degree of efficiency in the one case

wants of being equal to the degree of efficiency in the other.

If by means of the introduction of machinery, or improvement in the machinery in

use, a manufacturer of cloth (suppose) performs with one thousand hands employ'd

in the fabrication of the cloth in its several stages commencing at the raw

material a mass of work in the same[?] quantity and quality as that which before

the improvement required two thousand hands it might seem at first sight from

this statement that the natural effect of the