Now, through the workshop,
production is going to increase, and at the same time the
deficit.
Somebody discovered that, by dividing production into its various
parts and causing each to be executed by a separate workman, he
would obtain a multiplication of power, the product of which
would be far superior to the amount of labor given by the same
number of workmen when labor is not divided.
Grasping the thread of this idea, he said to himself that, by
forming a permanent group of laborers assorted with a view to his
special purpose, he would produce more steadily, more abundantly,
and at less cost. It is not indispensable, however, that the
workmen should be gathered into one place: the existence of the
workshop does not depend essentially upon such contact. It
results from the relation and proportion of the different tasks
and from the common thought directing them. In a word,
concentration at one point may offer its advantages, which are
not to be neglected; but that is not what constitutes the
workshop.
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