SOCI 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Consumerism, Commodification, Planned Obsolescence
1 Apr 2015
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Intergenerational (baby boomers have more than we will ever see today) Differences in struggle (marginalized communities get hit hardest and first) Rise of huge corporations (walmart etc) bigger buying out smaller. More industrial production on global scale, becoming harmful. Scientific management (taylorism) increased managerial control over the worker with the goal of maximizing work output. Took away autonomy from workers, cant structure their day uniformed. Fordism (assembly line model) automated production line, complex division of labour(ex worker often never see the finished product) repetitive work, intensive production, maximum use of machinery. Improvement in wages ( encourages workers to buy products) by 70s companies started to go down. Extended working day, cut wages, lots of cut backs. Tax on union. ( dark time for workers) Post-fordism (lean production) what we see today. more office type work, less manual but performed tasks with technology.
