LABR 1F90 Lecture 3: LABR 1F90 Week 3 Lecture Reading
1 Feb 2018
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Reversal of the standard employment relationship (ser) Page | 1: common during much of 20th century. 1960s-1970s public sector. (page 36) post wwii male blue collar workers. Deepening long term commitments between employers and workers. Workers having a greater sense of control over employment. New managerial ideology: increased global supply chains (free trade), new economy business model of contracting work out to third parties. Pre-capitalist employment relationships: slavery systems, slavery labour bought and sold as a commodity, (page 36) slave owners controlled work, insecure for workers, arbitrary by slave-owner. Page 36: feudalism, workers no longer owned as slaves, still little control over who and where worked, not free to sell to highest bidder, 1351 statute of labourers. Set rates for most types of labour. Trades regulated by apprenticeship: tied young apprentices to masters for seven years until age 24, ratio of apprentices to journeymen capped, medieval society. Workers obligated to provide services to lord = labour and taxes.
