Urbanism and the division of labour in the Roman Empire.

ABSTRACT: One of the hallmarks of human agglomeration is an increase in the division of labour, but the exact nature of this relationship has been debated among anthropologists, sociologists, economists, and historians and archaeologists. Over the last decade, researchers investigating contemporary urban systems have suggested a novel explanation for the links between the numbers of inhabitants in settlements and many of their most important characteristics, which is grounded in a view of settlements as social networks embedded in built environments. One of the remarkable aspects of this approach is that it is not based on the specific conditions of the modern world (such as capitalism or industrialization), which raises the issue of whether the relationships observed in contemporary urban systems c

SUBMITTER: Hanson JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5721147 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature