Division of labor arose to replace clan and kin bonds in mobile modern societies.

Evidence

In other words, the division of labor was summoned into society at the beginning of the twentieth century by the rapidly changing circumstances of the first modernity’s new individuals, discussed in Chapter 2. It was an essential response to their new “conditions of existence.” As people like my great-grandparents joined the migration to a modern world, the old sources of meaning that had bonded communities across space and time melted away. What would hold society together in the absence of the rules and rituals of clan and kin? Durkheim’s answer was the division of labor. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 579

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A modern state is an institutionalized division of political labor; People stereotype groups to justify an existing division of labor; Division of labor creates an autonomous realm of mental labor controlled by ruling classes. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 887 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• A modern state is an institutionalized division of political labor #expands (0.85)
• Division of labor creates an autonomous realm of mental labor controlled by ruling classes. #qualifies (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 887
• Early industrial market capitalism depended on reciprocal bonds with workers and communities #contradicts (0.78) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 98
• People stereotype groups to justify an existing division of labor #complicates (0.72)