SOCI 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Temporary Work, Late Capitalism, Capital Flight
12 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Sociology of Work
Lecture 5
Introducing Work
Is a social product
Involves participation in complex economies and systems of production &
consumption.
How we think about ‘work’ is historically and culturally situated
In North America is key to identity-making processes.
The economy
• Hunting and gathering
• Agricultural
• Socialism/ communism
• Capitalism
Capitalism
1) Early Capitalism (French revolution 1789-1799, industrial revolution late 1700s-late
1800s)
2) Family Capitalism (mid to late 1800s)
3) Corporate Capitalism (late 1800s to mid 1900s)
4) Welfare Capitalism (1930s-1980s)
5) Late Capitalism (1980s-present)
the Canadian economy today
Dual labour market structure: “a division of economy into sectors with different levels of
pay” (Little et al. 18.2)
Primary Sector: extraction of resources from the natural environment (farming, logging,
fishing)
Secondary Sector: processing of natural resources into goods (manufacturing)
Tertiary Sector: service sector (public and private)
Social Reproduction: unpaid labour that facilitates paid labour
Informal Sector: off-the-books, underground sector
Work in an age of late capitalism in Canada
• McDonaldization
• The “Gig economy”
• Migrant labour
McDonalization (Ritzer 1993)
Efficiency
Calculability
Predictability
Control
- Impact: deskilling of workers
Neoliberalism and work
Capital flight→ decline in union density
Deregulation→ health, safety concerns for workers and the broader public
Celebration of entrepreneurship→ logic of individual responsibility
The GIG economy
Called the “sharing economy”
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Document Summary
Involves participation in complex economies and systems of production & consumption. How we think about work" is historically and culturally situated. In north america is key to identity-making processes. The economy: hunting and gathering, agricultural, socialism/ communism, capitalism. 1) early capitalism (french revolution 1789-1799, industrial revolution late 1700s-late. 2) family capitalism (mid to late 1800s) 3) corporate capitalism (late 1800s to mid 1900s) 5) late capitalism (1980s-present) the canadian economy today pay (little et al. Dual labour market structure: a division of economy into sectors with different levels of. Primary sector: extraction of resources from the natural environment (farming, logging, fishing) Secondary sector: processing of natural resources into goods (manufacturing) Social reproduction: unpaid labour that facilitates paid labour. Work in an age of late capitalism in canada: mcdonaldization, the gig economy , migrant labour. Deregulation health, safety concerns for workers and the broader public. Premised on the californian ideology (slee, p. 15)
