Combined labor generates a social force exceeding the sum of individual efforts

Evidence

On several occasions, Marx stresses the analogy between the problems of the division of labour and those of military tactics. For example: ‘Just as the offensive power of a squadron of cavalry, or the defensive power of a regiment of infantry, is essentially different from the sum of the offensive or defensive powers of the individual cavalry or infantry soldiers taken separately, so the sum total of the mechanical forces exerted by isolated workmen differs from the social force that is developed, when many hands take part simultaneously in one and the same undivided operation’ (Marx, Capital, vol. 1, 308). — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 246

Categorization

• XREF: This is the cooperation effect — the same compositive logic the reader maps onto panoptic self-policing: the whole exceeds its parts through arrangement. — connects to: Concentrated obligation-credit enhances both individual power and collective output. — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 93; Reality is produced through collective work and action — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 386; Force superiority within a territory requires organized mobilization of resources (+6 more)

Related

• The social exceeds the sum of its individual members (similarity 0.91)
• Collective critique and division of labor raise a group’s average to its best members. (similarity 0.90)
• Social aggregates exceed their components because division of labour creates unownable collective production (similarity 0.89)
• Society, through the division of labour, produces more than the sum of its parts. (similarity 0.86)

Broader Connections

• Concentrated obligation-credit enhances both individual power and collective output. #corroborates (0.82) — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 93
• Reality is produced through collective work and action #expands (0.78) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 386
• Force superiority within a territory requires organized mobilization of resources #exemplifies (0.75)