SOCIOL 3U03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Consumerism, Harry Braverman, Surplus Labour
29 Jan 2018
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Industrial revolution, prior to this time there were no factories and wage labor (working for an hourly wage: replace ad transform work performed by humans (and animals) with technology, machine factories. Rule of thumb : ways of doing work based on practice and experience. Scientific management of work (smw) & taylorism (1) Workers purposefully working below their abilities as a response to low wages. If people start working faster, people feared that this new pace would become the standard and would be hard to maintain. And reliance on rule of thumb method. A first-class pig-iron handler ought to handle between 471 and 48 long tons per day, instead of 12 tons. He hand picked the fittest men, you should be able to be physicially capable to move 47 lbs. Ordered these men to follow the instructions of supervisors exactly. Applied average work times to entire workplace as a requirement for keeping jobs. Rule of thumb method had to be replaced.
