LABRST 1A03 Lecture 16: Feb 9

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABRST 1A03
• Professor: Michael Mercier

Document Summary

Second set of changes, especially in year 1900: resources, manufacturing. Technological and physical changes: power supply. Managerial strategies: job ladder, piece rates, drive system, scientific management & taylorism. Second industrial revolution more divisions of labour, innovations, and more changes in the workplace. Mass production tasks are now broken down. Vast advancement in the role of technology. Henry ford: created the assembly line, and automobiles. Companies and corporations become powerful and need skilled people. Because of management changes, another symbol is office towers of the second industrial revolution. More skyscrapers, eg. chicago, explosive growth of office towers. Coming of second industrial revolution is a part of the package of changes in canada. 1896-1914, canada benefits from an economic boom: brought canada good luck (resources) Resources & staple industries remain most important for canada. Government found a way to grow crops on prairies, allowing prairies to get populated by a big factor.