LABRST 1C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Labour Power, Social Status, Deskilling

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Labour studies perspective labour process is problematic from perspective of workers (what are implications driven to work in conditions that are not favourable) The labour process is an expression of who has the power in the workplace. Employers must find ways to turn the capacity to work (the potential that employers purchase on a labour market) into the actual performance at work: this requires excursion of power on employers part. Be(cid:272)ause la(cid:271)our is a (cid:858)pseudo-(cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)odit(cid:455)(cid:859) (cid:858)pseudo(cid:859) = i(cid:374) appeara(cid:374)(cid:272)e o(cid:374)ly. Characterised by subsistence production and independent/petty commodity production: subsistence production goal of production not to make product, but for people to consume for own needs (growing things in backyard for your own benefit. Independent/petty commodity production directly producing for a market, but they are in control of labour process. Pushes people to have lower expectations of work, and seek satisfaction outside of work. Competition and profit maximization shapes the capitalist labour process.

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