Meanings
- uncountableExtreme or excessive division.
In Nazi Germany, the hyperdivision of labour according to gender (political and military roles for men, domestic roles for women), had it lasted for centuries, would have possibly resulted in a model not unlike the Nayar.
1994, Norbert Rouland, Legal Anthropology, page 2091 more example
In Japan, for example, tenure-in-place in a sharply segmented labor market with little mobility between primary sector firms created strong enough incentives that firms avoided the hyperdivision of labor and atrophy-inducing rules that once characterized many Western firms.
2009, Paul DiMaggio, The Twenty-First-Century Firm, page 218
Origin
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