Title:	Geography and Economy
Authors:	ALLEN J. SCOTT Clark, Gordon
Keywords:	Economy
Issue Date:	2006
Publisher:	University Press
Description:	The concept of the division of labour in production has a long genealogy stretching back to the seventeenth century and before, and it recurs repeatedly in the writings of economists and other social theorists down to the present time. In economics, the concept plays a major role in studies of industrial organization, productivity, and trade. In sociology, it has been of major signiWcance as the linchpin of the distinction Wrst proposed by Durkheim (1893) between mechanical and organic solidarity in society. More recently, sociologists have also made considerable use of the concept in studies of the ways in which the division of labour is intertwined with phenomena like race, class, and gender (e.g. Mies 1998; Waldinger and Bozorgmehr 1996). Over the last couple of decades, geographers, too, have made numerous forays into questions of the division of labour and much research has been accomplished on how it ramiWes with various kinds of spatial and locational outcomes (Massey 1984; Sayer and Walker 1992).
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/17796
ISBN:	978-0-19-928430-6
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

Items in DSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.