Division of labor Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Division of labor.
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“Productivity”
“Organization”
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“Protestant work ethic”
“Division of labor is a justification for sloth.”
“Answers determined by the social division of labor become truth as such.”
“The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.”
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“The life that I aspire to live
No man proposeth me—
No trade upon the street
Wears its emblazonry.”
“The number 2 thought of by one man cannot be added to the number 2 thought of by another man so as to make up the number 4.”
“Nothing tends to materialize man and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind more than the extreme division of labor.”
“Limitation to specialized work, with a renunciation of the Faustian universality of man which it involves, is a condition of any valuable work in the modern world.”
“The celebrated Adam Smith was the first to point out the immense increase of production, and the superior perfection of products referable to this division of labour.”
“The division of distinctive social roles and tasks, based upon both inherited and socially acquired individual differences, is called social differentiation.”
“As yet no aesthetic standards have been introduced. Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organisation of labour.”
“You can’t treat values like workers, hiring and firing them at will and assigning each a place in an imposed division of labor. The taste for freedom and pleasure can’t be compartmentalized.”
“In the specialist culture of our bureaucratic-industrial age, the reliance on experts to interpret and evaluate inner life is in itself the most malignant and invasive reach of division of labor.”
“The lifeblood of our economy, indeed the whole world's economy, is based on money. Without a currency that can be trusted, the entire structure of economics, the division of labor itself, falls apart.”
“The more heavily the process of self-preservation is based on the bourgeois Division of labor, the more it enforces the self-alienation of individuals, who must mold themselves to the technical apparatus body and soul.”
“It is appropriate at the outset of this discussion to consider the reasons for and the effect of the division of work. It is sufficient for our purpose to note the following factors.
Why Divide Work?”