Concept
Division of labour
Overview
separation of tasks in any system (particularly the society) so that participants may specialize
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The division of labour, however, so far as it can be introduced, occasions, in every art, a proportionable increase of the productive powers of labour. The separation of different trades and employments from one another, seems to have taken place in consequence of this advantage. This separation, too, is generally carried furthest in those countries which enjoy the highest degree of industry and improvement; what is…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
The chapter “CHAPTER I. OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR.” is titled for Division of labour; states what Division of labour is.
To take an example, therefore, from a very trifling manufacture, but one in which the division of labour has been very often taken notice of, the trade of a pin-maker: a workman not educated to this business (which the division of labour has rendered a distinct trade), nor acquainted with the use of the machinery employed in it (to the invention of which the same division of labour has probably given occasion)…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
The chapter “OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR.” is titled for Division of labour; names Division of labour several times.
The fact is, however, that the division of labour in science, like the division of labour in society, and like the "physiological division of labour" in individual organisms, has been not only a specialization of functions, but a continuous helping of each division by all the others, and of all by each. Every particular class of inquirers has, as it were, secreted its own particular order of truths from the general…
Herbert Spencer, Illustrations of Universal Progress
Names Division of labour several times.
Philosophers who discussed Division of labour
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Part of Agriculturalism.