Divided Labors examines how literary narratives articulate and model division of labor,which was a core organizing principle of the social body, industrial economy, and knowledgeproduction in the first half of the nineteenth century in industrial Britain. Investigating the waythat narrative simultaneously articulates and embodies division of labor and other politicaleconomic ideas, this dissertation examines the narrative innovations made by Conversations onPolitical Economy (1816) by Jane Marcet, the “Days at the Factories” (1841-1844) tours byGeorge Dodd, and the social novel, Shirley (1849) by Charlotte Brontë. Division of labor,through its logics of organization, helps give comprehensibility to the vast and complexindustrial economy and populous social body. It does this by distilling interconnected networksof productive relationships between laborers, machines, tools, factories, industries, and classesdown to two related activities: dividing and combining. The organizational logics of the divisionof labor were, I argue, adapted into literary forms that serve both narrative and economicpurposes; as a result, it also is an iterative vehicle by which economic knowledge is created, andideologies are constructed and naturalized.