"The value which the workmen add to the materials, therefore, resolves itself in this case into two parts, of which the one pays their wages, the other the profits of the employer upon the whole stock of materials and wages which he advanced."
Adam Smith

January 1, 1970

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Chapter VI, p. 58.

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