e essence of private property and the modern social construction of labor results in an alienated form of human activity (Bottomore, 1964). Marx saw this division of labor as inevitably polarizing groups within society. He took the position that conflict was inevitable when labor became alienated from the fruits of production.
Durkheim was more deeply worried about the lack of intermediate groups between the individual worker and the impersonal forces of government and business than was Marx (Hess, Markson, & Stein, 1989). It was his position that while
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