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What is the major difference between Karl Marx and Max Weber's ideas about the division of labour?

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What is the major difference between Karl Marx and Max Weber's ideas about the division of labour?

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  1. marx:   div of labor leads to alienation --  workers become more and more specialised and work repetitious which eventually leads to complete alienation. Marx wrote that "with this division of labour", the worker is "depressed spiritually and physically to the condition of a machine". He believed that the fullness of production is essential to human liberation and accepted the idea of a strict division of labour only as a temporary necessary evil.

    pleasant and unpleasant jobs must be done by a group of people.  it does not follow that any particular person must do any particular (pleasant or unpleasant) job. If particular people get to do the unpleasant jobs and others the pleasant jobs, this cannot be explained by technical necessity; it is a socially made decision, which could be made using a variety of different criteria. The tasks could be rotated, or a person could be assigned to a task permanently, and so on.

    Weber: capaitalist sys is dependent on availability of labor.  labor is quite independent and the industries have to pay them to do the job. hence labour dictates the terms.  labour is again divided as against the social and economic system.

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