Division of labour is an important element in the industrial landscape. It involves a specialisation in the vocations (Businesses), the commercial sectors (Trade) and the sciences (Science). The technical division of labour in the sense of separating work processes into different types of simple sub-operations (Technology) is the basis for factory production (Factory). It has a considerable influence on the quality of the manufactured goods. The different partial work processes are subject to different wage levels (Wages). 

This lithograph from 1893 shows a factory and 24 pictures of the various workrooms and buildings on the premises of the company C. G. Röder, a manufacturer specialising in music engraving and music printing. It gives a clear picture of the division of labour among the workforce. The company’s founder Carl Gottlieb Röder is immortalised on a small medal. The highly successful company had to move its premises several times until it took up permanent residence in the Leipzig district “Graphisches Viertel”, where it had the space it needed for the increasingly specialised it work that was being carried out there in buildings that had to be extended several times.