SOC 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Northern Canada, Main Source, Market Segmentation

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 105
• Professor: Mustafa Koc

Document Summary

Capitalsit accumulation is geared towards controlling labour process to maximize profitability. This can be possible by exploting the workers, by increasing their productivity and appropraitng a larger share of the the value they produce. Scientific management (taylorism): as a strategy to increase productivity of labour. A management stargetgy to control the labour process. Uses time motion studies to determine the minimum time required to complete a task. Seperates manual work as a special category, removing the need for workers. Mass production based on assembly line techniques. Mass consumption (by nuclear family households) the rise of the middle class. Maximum use of machinery / minute divisions of labour. Wages indexed to produce wages and inflation. Labour market segmentation: the separation of labour markets into sectors if godo ad and bad jobs. Means of production (land, water, labour, agricultural implements) Social and natural disruptions: epidemics, natural disasters, climate change, market crashes, extreme inequality , wars, civil wars, authoritarian governments.