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DIVISION OF LAB OUR, ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES
How hard would it be for one man to live if he had to do everything by himself? What
enables a group of people to do much more than they would acting alone is the division of
labour
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When people specialize in their areas, they can exchange any surplus they produce
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Division of labour has further been divided into various forms:
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A simple example would be pushing a car stuck in the
mud
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3
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Production of different goods leads
to creation of different occupations
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Geographical Division of Labour – When goods and services can only be produced
in a certain part of the country because the workers or factories in those regions have
the only skills needed, it creates geographical division of labour
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ADVANTAGES
Increase in Production – The goal of division of labour is to simplify work and increase
production
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Increase in Efficiency of Labour – Efficiency is the offspring of doing a task repeatedly
time and again
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Increase in Mobility of Labour - production is split up into different parts and a worker
becomes trained in that very specific task in the production of the commodity which he
performs time and again
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Saves Time – A worker has all the right tools he/she needs to do the job within their stations
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This leads to continuity in
work without interruptions
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Increase in Employment Opportunities – Demand for a larger scale of production creates
demand for workers
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Right Man at The Right Job - Division of labour implies splitting up of production into a
number of processes
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DISADVANTAGES
Monotony – With division of labour, a worker has to do the same job over a prolonged
period of time which may likely result in boredom leaving them unhappy with the job which
may have an adverse effect on production
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In most
cases, no one can be held accountable
Loss of Mental Development - When the labourer is made to work only on a part of the
work, he does not possess complete knowledge of the work
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If one man is lazy, the entire production
process suffers
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However,
when there is no market that is available to absorb the excess produce, the company may

have a full warehouse of goods with nowhere to dispose them
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