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Karl Marx Division Of Labor

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Reading chapter 14 and learning about the division of labour and manufacture was very compelling to me. Marx discuses different ways on how a manufactory could be productive and how to get the right people to do the job. I think that Marx was trying to further a division of labor within a production process. The reason why I said that is because Marx felt like having people already in the manufactory trying to do everything. He felt like we should split them up in though out the factory to what there was good at. Where people were specialized into something. It was interesting that at a time in history, we had people that was doing everything to make a productive and make sure it was right. Also they had to keep on doing it to make sure they

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