Deepening in Division of Labor: An Analysis of Five Great Social Divisions of Labor and Intra-sector Division of Labor

Based on a review of the academically acknowledged three great social divisions of labor, this paper defines the standards to delimit social division of labor and interprets the realistic logic of the fourth and the fifth great social divisions of labor marked by appearance of the cultural sector and the information sector respectively. In accordance with the relationship between the divisions of labor in general and in particular, this paper determines basic signs of divisions of labor in particular in agricultural, industrial, commercial, cultural and information sectors as the appearance of the plantation-centered mode of agricultural production, of the modern industry-centered mode of industrial production, of the culture-centered cultural industry, of the banking-centered financial system, and of the information services-centered information industry.