0 a way of organizing work, especially making things, so that particular types of work are done by particular people:
Society is challenging the traditional sexual division of labour.
1 a way of organizing work, especially making things, so that it is done as a set of separate processes by different people or groups:
By encouraging cooperation between departments, the company is challenging the traditional division of labour within the organization.
a global division of labour between developed and developing countries
The combined effect was increasing specialization and division of labour, in particular, a gradual separation of weaving from wool production and wool trade.
They can also be based on a differing position in the structures of the division of labour, for example public sector versus private sector employment.
The old welfare was built around national standards, uniform provision, codification, the reconciliation of market and welfare and a gendered division of labour.
A certain degree of division of labour took place in the production of cigarettes, but not in the production of cigars and limpiones.
These were countries that functioned as plantation economies within the international division of labour, supplying tropical agricultural products to industrialised metropolitan countries.
Central to this idea was the perception of a non-rational or redundant division of labour between industry and artisans.
In part, this reflects a natural division of labour whereby older and married men stayed out of the firing line.
Thirdly, the opinion leader theory states that there is a necessary division of labour about knowledge and that people take advice from their knowledgeable associates.
