The Division of Labour in Society

Although the division of labour is not of recent origin, it was only at the end of the last century that societies began to become aware of this law, to which up to then they had submitted almost unwittingly. It involves increasingly powerful mechanisms, large-scale groupings of power and capital, and consequently an extreme division of labour.

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• 1 Undoubtedly even from antiquity several thinkers had perceived its importance.1 Yet Adam Smith was the first to attempt to elaborate the theory of it.
• 2 Moreover, it was he who first coined the term, which social science later lent to biology.
• 3 Nowadays the phenomenon has become so widespread that it catches everyone’s attention.

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