Question

what was the development that troubled many sirious thinkers such as john ruskin and william morris?​

Answer 1

Answer:

advance in wealth meant loss and degradation of skills

Answer 2

Answer:

The extreme division of labour that was proposed by Adam Smith troubled many serious thinkers.

Explanation:

• Adam Smith boasted about the development that it took 18 men to make one pin, which meant that each man did a very small job and became very fast at it and the speed at which pins are produced as well as the volume of production went up.
• This troubled thinkers such as William Morris and John Ruskin, because now workers were not as skilled as they used to be in the past and could not make a pin by themselves as an old pin maker could.
• They believed that by making the industrialists wealthier, the workers and their conditions were decaying.
• This means that workers are not ignorant and they are helpless when it comes to improving their situation.

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