Merits of division of labour
1. It improves efficiency of labour when labour repeats doing the same tasks.
2. Facilitates the use of machinery in production, resulting in inventions.
3. Time and Materials are put to the best and most efficient use.
Demerits of division of labour
1. Repetition of the same task makes labour to feel that the work is monotonous and stale. It kills the humanity in him.
2. Narrow specialization reduces the possibility of labour to find alternative avenues of employment. This results in increased unemployment.
3. Reduce the growth of handicrafts and the worker loses the satisfaction of having made a commodity in full.
