LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Skilled Worker
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Only the skilled workman : skilled workman lost power they had before, aren"t in charge anymore, trying to conserve the status and power they had, trying to keep a lot of traditions and customs they had. Radical aspects: going right the fundamentals, trying to keep control of how things are made and how things are done in the workplace, foreman come along, they don"t have a lot of skill, but manage all the workers. Craftsmen fight the foreman often because they want to maintain the workplace as it was before: mutual support, examples: carpenters union and building trades (carpenters as well) Classic example: shoemakers: called the knights of st. crispin , very strong on the early customs, band together very quickly in the skilled trades, become one of the fore front organizations early on. It depends on technology and on techniques) e. g.