Commodities and services may be bundled in an infinite variety of configurations. For example, at this point in the history of technology it is unclear whether the telephone will become an extension of the personal computer, or if the personal computer will become an extension of the telephone. The social division of labor may change in response to technology, prices, monopolistic practices, and other factors. Marxists argue that anarchy in the social division of labor and authoritarianism within the firm mutually condition each other. Anarchy in the social division of labor contributes to the pressures that force workers to submit to wage labor.
Primitive accumulation represents an effort to rupture the traditional methods of organizing work.
Perelman wants to show that classical political economists actively manipulated the structure of the social division of labor to assist their allies, the owners of the means of production. In the absence of direct evidence, Perelman uses a pincer strategy that examines the efforts of the classical school to influence the international division of labor as well as the household division of labor. Perelman's case concerning the international division of labor is based on the arguments of the classical political economists concerning the protectionist Corn Laws. He argues that Nassau Senior's opposition to the Corn Laws was due not simply to the theory of free trade but also to a concern for Britain's global strategy. Senior warned that if the English persisted in protecting their markets from food imports, countries such as the US and Germany would turn to industrial pursuits.