The following is an excerpt from Adam Smith's description of the pin industry (Evaluating the Evidence 17.2): "I have seen a small manufactory of this kind where ten men only were employed, and where some of them consequently performed two or three distinct operations. But though they were very poor, and therefore but indifferently accommodated with the necessary machinery, they could, when they exerted themselves, make among them about twelve pounds of pins in a day. There are in a pound upward of four thousand pins of a middling size. Those ten persons, therefore, could make among them upward of forty-eight thousand pins in a day."
In this passage, Adam Smith suggested that

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Adam Smith highlights the use of unskilled labor in the pin industry, which was possible due to the division of labor. He also suggests that even with poor machinery and working conditions, the ten men in the small manufactory were able to produce a significant amount of pins due to the division of labor. Therefore, Smith supports the idea that the division of labor facilitated the use of unskilled labor in manufacturing processes.

The Following Is an Excerpt from Adam Smith's Description of the Pin