Manufactures, where they are in perfection, are carried on by a multiplicity of hands, each of which is expert only in his own part; no one of them a master of the whole; and, if by any means spirited away to a foreign country, he is lost without his fellows.
Franklin describes the complexity of manufacturing processes and the importance of skilled labor.
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