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The principle of the factory system then is, to substitute mechanical science for hand skill, and the [division of a manufacturing process into its individual parts] . . . . On the handicraft plan, labour more or less skilled was usually the most expensive element of production. . . . but on the automatic plan, skilled labour gets progressively superseded, and will, eventually, be replaced by mere overlookers of machines. —The Philosophy of the Manufacturers,
Andrew Ure

In this passage, the “handicraft plan” refers to
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According to the author, the most expensive part of production under the “handicraft plan” is the cost of
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