Adam Smith's views on the division of labour are known to be contradictory. On the one hand, he extols the efficiency and innovation a division of labour can bring and on the other, he criticises it to be just an exercise of the body and not the mind. Stating, that it degenerates bodies of people. Well, I found this paper, specifically pages 127 - 135, on the matter and the interesting part is that it includes Marx's critique of these antagonistic theories:
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