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In contrast to division of work, division of labour is the specialization of an individual workers' or organizations' skills, through education, training, and practice.
In a contemporary mass production situation, the division of labor is usually highly task-specific (verifying the evenness of a fabric's dye, for example) and requires few specialized workers and large numbers of unskilled laborers. Lesson Summary. Let's review. The splitting of tasks among different people and groups is called division of labor. You experience it every day in places like restaurants, where different people specialize in different tasks, from leading you to your table, to cooking your meal, to serving your food and bringing your check.