This
paper explains that early political economists considered the
division of
labor as a fundamental theoretical and practical principle, especially in industrialized, capitalist societies. The author points out that the division of labor involves the actual
process of separating labor into distinct roles, which do not let the worker manufacture a completed product, but rather separates the work into dissociated roles that are picked up by different
skilled and semi-skilled workers, each completing a part of the process. The paper states that the result and goal of this process is ultimately profit.