Talk:Division of labour/Archive 1

Archive 1

Proposal for Minor Edit in the Plato quotation

Why use the Penguin Classics translation for Plato's Republic? Greek and Roman translations of that publishing house has been notoriously corrupt and distorted amongst classical scholars and specialists, as their translators focus on an accessible English editions, they often take so many liberties with the Greek. On this, the giveaway is the word "state." The Greek is "poleis," more conveniently called city. To call it "state," or even "city-state," is already to assume that the idea, clearly formulated in modern times, is already in the Greek. I suggest to quote that section from the Allan Bloom translation. Kai theos en ho logos (talk) 06:56, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

Treatment of specialization within an organization vs. the specialization of organizations

A discussion of the division of labor should include the specialization of organizations within a society and that of nations within the world economy as well as the specialization of individuals within an organization. After all the distinction between an organization and an individual can be arbitrary. A man or woman working by themselves is clearly an individual, but are they still individuals if they recruit a mother-in-law to help part time? How about if a cousin helps out too? And a member of an organization can bring specialized equipment to his task just as an organization can. Also, a nation is a kind of organization. Temple Bayliss (talk) 12:31, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

Connection between economic interdependence and the division of labour

A citation for this connection might be of interest but it may not actually be needed. After all, the division of Labor requires that participants in an economic system trade to obtain the products they cannot efficiently produce by themselves or for themselves. Surely that is what economic interdependence means. Temple Bayliss (talk) 11:20, 18 May 2021 (UTC)