Talk:Division of labour/Archives/2014

Durkheim
More on Durkheim views on division of labour can be found in his article.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 17:26, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

List of divisions
Sorry if I'm doing this wrong, this is my first time posting anything on wikipedia. In this article there used to be a list of estimates for the division of labor in a developed country. I found it very useful and illustrative of the concepts here, but it seems to have been removed. I can't find any mention of its removal anywhere and I am wondering why it is gone.

Article's Neutrality
Durkheim, von Mises, Smith, et al. are not also controvertial, theoretically?

This article is not neutral enuff (surprise). And since I've seen almost completely neutral articles on other touchy subjects, there's no need to assume that neutrality can be achieved: we KNOW it can be.

Just consider this a statement of intent to contest this article's present objectivity.

Pazouzou 07:08, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Removed software as a type of "production", gaining "productivity". It seems unclear. I think there should be mentions of integrative perspectives that call division of labor into question for certain types of work (in the small scale). I am thinking of Parker-Follet, MacGregor, the sociotechnical perspective, holism, Argyris. Perhaps also add references to lean production as neo-Taylorism, etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.95.37.251 (talk) 15:36, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Specialization confused with division of labor
Division of labor is the concept concerned with dividing labor in factories. That is quite different from people having different professions, such as farmer, weaver, cobbler. Most of this article is off topic.Phmoreno (talk) 03:10, 18 January 2014 (UTC)


 * I think it can be applied to a single factory or to society as a whole.  Encyclopedia Britannica says it is most often used for systems of mass production, but not exclusively http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/326831/division-of-labour . Here is an article using it to apply to society http://durkheim.uchicago.edu/Summaries/dl.html The terms seem synonymous, economic specialization redirects here, while Specialization (functional) widens the topic to include biology.  Also see Post-Fordism. Jonpatterns (talk) 11:17, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Global Division of Labour
This section which has been removed was not very well written and didn't describe the topic very well. However, Global Division of Labor deserves a mention, perhaps in the Globalization section. Some references which may be useful, [1] [2] [3] Jonpatterns (talk) 17:23, 18 January 2014 (UTC)