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Compare Karl Marx with Emile Durkheim with reference to the framework of ‘division of labour’.

  • UPSC 2013, 2010
  • Sociological Thinkers

Adam Smith (The Wealth of Nations, 1776) praised the division of labour as the engine of productivity. Karl Marx and Émile Durkheim both turned it into a social question, and they reached opposite answers. For Durkheim it is the new source of moral solidarity in industrial society. For Marx, under capitalism, it is the organisation…

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