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Describe the nature of social organization of work in industrial society.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Works and Economic Life

Industrial society is one in which inanimate power and machinery dominate production and most people work for wages in large organisations. It is a technological order, distinct from capitalism as a property order: the Soviet Union was industrial without being capitalist. Its organisation of work was theorised by Émile Durkheim, Karl Marx and Max Weber.

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