"The point must be emphasized, given the tendency to attribute the leap capitalism brought about in the productivity of labor only to the specialization of work-tasks. In reality, the advantages which the capitalist class derived from the differentiation between agricultural and industrial labor and within industrial labor itself—celebrated in Adam Smith's ode to pin-making—pale when compared to those it derived from the degradation of women's work and social position."
Silvia Federici, "Caliban & the Witch"