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In the nineteenth century, the social ravages of industrialization were commented upon by numerous contemporaries. The sociologist Emile Durkheim wrote a pioneering study "On the social division of labour," analysing the transition from pre-industrial to industrial society. 

Durkheim cites several early nineteenth-century observers who commented on the degraded condition of industrial workers, such as Jean-Baptiste Say who observed that "the worker who during his whole career uses only a file and hammer ... degrades the dignity of his nature," and de Toqueville who wrote: "As the principle of the division of labour is applied more and more completely, production progresses, but the producer regresses." 

==References==
*Emile Durkheim, "The Division of Labor in Society" (1893)

==Links==
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durkheim

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