The division of labor in society / Emile Durkheim ; edited and with a new introduction by Steven Lukes ; translation by W.D. Halls.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917

Contributor:

Lukes, Steven, editor, writer of introduction.

Halls, W. D., translator.

Standardized Title:

De la division du travail social. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Division of labor.

Physical Description:

liii, 362 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

Free Press trade paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Free Press, 2014.

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Preface to this edition, by Steven Lukes

Introduction to the 1984 edition, by Lewis Coser

Introduction to this edition, by Steven Lukes, Emile Durkheim's life and works: timeline 1858-1917

Suggestions for further reading

Original translator's notes by W.D. Halls

The Division of labor in society

Preface to the first edition (1893)

Preface to the second edition (1902)

Introduction

Book I: The function of the division of labor

Chapter I: The method of determining this function

Chapter II: Mechanical solidarity, or solidarity by similarities

Chapter III: Solidarity arising from the division of labor, or organic solidarity

Chapter IV: Another proof of the preceding theory

Chapter V: The increasing preponderance of organic solidarity and its consequences

Chapter VI: The increasing preponderance of organic solidarity and its consequences (cont.)

Chapter VII: Organic solidarity and contractual solidarity

Book II: The causes and conditions

Chapter I: The progress of the division of labor and of happiness

Chapter II: The causes

Chapter III: Secondary factors

Chapter IV: Secondary factors (cont.)

Chapter V: Consequences of the foregoing

Book III: The abnormal forms

Chapter I: The anomic division of labor

Chapter II: The forced division of labor

Chapter III: Another abnormal form

Conclusion

Original annotated table of contents.

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--t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917. De la division du travail social. English. Division of labor in society.

ISBN:

9781476749730

1476749736

OCLC:

876277501

Publisher Number:

90104426872