The spatial aspects of the modern division of labor and its role in the process of globalization

Abstract

The division of labor in the early 1930s initiated the second industrial revolution. Henry Ford got the idea of splitting tasks between as many people as possible to reduce the time required to go through each stage of the production. Nowadays some argue that we are experiencing a third revolution where the focus would shift towards globalization, that is to say the division of labor as it is led by multinational companies and other factors.