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# Master Manufacturer

## Definition

The employer who advances materials, wages, and maintenance to workmen in manufacturing, sharing in the produce of their labour or in the value which their labour adds to the materials, with this profit making a second deduction from the produce of labour.

## Source Chapter

Book I, Chapter 8

## Context

Presented as the second major economic actor alongside landlords, who advances capital to workers and claims profit as their share of the produce of labour.

## Economic Domain

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