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Discuss Durkheim’s concept of Division of Labour. In what way does it differ from that of classical and neoclassical economists?

  • UPSC 1986
  • Sociological Thinkers

Economists made the division of labour the engine of wealth. Émile Durkheim, in The Division of Labour in Society (1893), made it the source of moral order. He asked not how specialisation raises output but what holds a society of specialists together.

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