The division of labor in society
By: Emile Durkheim ; edited and with a new introduction by Steven Lukes ; translation by W.D. Halls
Contributors: Lukes, Steven; Halls, W. D.
Edition: Free Press trade paperback edition.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781476749730
Subjects: Division of labor
Work titles: De la division du travail social
Description: "In 1893, a young doctoral student was to publish an entirely original work on the nature of labor and production as they were being shaped by the industrial revolution. Emile Durkheim's The Division of Labor in Society studies the nature of social solidarity and explores the ties that bind one person to the next in order to hold society together. This revised and updated second edition fluently conveys original arguments for contemporary readers. Leading Durkheim scholar Steve Lukes's new introduction builds upon Lewis Coser's original -- which places the work in its intellectual and historical context and pinpoints its central ideas and arguments -- by focusing on the text's significance for how we ought to think sociologically about some central problems that face us today."--Back cover.
Notes: Translation of: De la division du travail social.

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral), 1893.

Originally published: Emile Durkheim on the division of labor in society. New York : Macmillan, 1933.

Includes bibliographical references and index.