The social division of labor is the separation of society into different spheres of work, and on a broader social level, the separation of society into social\/economic classes. The initial spontaneous division of labor was natural, based on biological sex, childbearing, and age groups, young and old.<\/p>\n
In primitive society productive activity was based on a natural division of labor and simple cooperation. Simple cooperation involved community groups doing the same thing to accomplish a goal such as hunting large animals.<\/p>\n
The second division of labor was the separation of handicraft from agriculture.<\/p>\n
Handicraft, manufacture and industry are names for different qualitative states of productive forces, each with its own corresponding division of labor.<\/p>\n
The rise of manufacture displaced handicraft and its corresponding social organization of labor. Manufacture, a new division of labor, divided production into separate tasks, each carried out under one roof by separate workers.<\/p>\n
The industrial revolution, the factory system, socialized production and industrial cooperation changed society forever. Capitalism created the society of wage-laborers based on exchange, the buying and selling of each other\u2019s commodities. Socialized production was the foundation of industrial capitalism and industrial socialism.<\/p>\n
With the invention of the microchip, computers, robotics and the digital revolution the industrial form of society was uprooted, and a new robotic division of labor developed. Robotics destroys the old forms of division of labor and makes a new society both possible and inevitable.<\/p>\n
(See, Manufacture, Surplus products.)\u201d<\/p>\n
Excerpt From: Darryl Mitchell. \u201cMarxist Glossary Mini Edition 3.0.\u201d iBooks.<\/p>\n
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