Just as Adam Smith's factory managers broke the production of pins into 18 components, so companies are increasingly breaking the production of brain-work into ever tinier slices.
正如亚当·斯密的工厂经理将大头针的产线分成了十八道工序，如今的企业则将脑力工作分越来越细。
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Thomas Malone of MIT argues that these changes-automation, globalisation and deregulation-may be part of a bigger change: the application of the division of Labour to brain-work.