Division of labour is the specialisation of cooperative
labour in specific, circumscribed tasks and roles, intended to increase
efficiency of output. Historically the growth of a more and more complex division of labour is closely associated with the growth of
trade, the rise of
capitalism, and of the complexity of
industrialisation processes. Later, the division of labour reached the level of a scientifically-based management practice with the time and motion studies associated with
Taylorism.
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