Abstract

.In order to aid public and private quest of economic modernisation, this article
aims to analyse theoretical aspects related to social and economic determinants of national
division of labor in a society. It presents a reflection about the elements which condition
workers occupational distribution. It observes that this distribution shows a structural configuration,
with defined patterns for each level of economic development. The questions here
examined concern to the meaning of structure as the configuration of labor force adjustment
to different technologies and how its composition arises from the economic system insertion
in the wider macrosocial context.

JEL Classification: J81; J82.