Chapter 3: From Empire to Hierarchy

It's really interesting to me that since the eighteenth century organizations function "much like empires." As it is said in the reading "social control is effectively produced in part by the relationship between the location of industry and neighborhoods." This is something that I noticed when I was visiting my family in Mexico. I was visiting in a small town, and the people whose homes were closest to the factories, they had less material power and social status. It was something that I noticed, but I never paid much attention to it, not until I read this chapter in the book. Karl Marx demonstrated in the mid-nineteenth century the division of labor. Marx thought that "division of labor was essential to organizing corporations and societies along class lines." I worked at a day care for five years and I always felt like there was a division of labor when I was working there. Of course, it was not as structured as mentioned here, but there was the distinction of who did what type of work and when things needed to get done. There was my boss, who did not help much with the children, she would just tell my co-workers and me what to do. I always felt like that was some kind of division of labor.