SOC 472 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Keystroke Logging, Blue-Collar Worker, Luddite
7 Dec 2017
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In 100 years the number of men working in agriculture dropped by 95% At the same time, white collar work and service work expanded. Inventions like the waterwheel, transportation via canals, steam engines, mechanical inventions like the loom, diesel / electric engine, the production line or assembly line. However, some areas expanded, while some areas contracted. Technology is the engine of growth in capitalism. Some technology results from (cid:498)learning while you are doing(cid:499) Example: digital imaging destroyed the film manufacturing and processing industries. Digital music business destroying the vinyl record business. Early technological advances like the textile machines were seen as attacks on jobs and livelihood. Skilled work was being replaced by low skilled low wage jobs. Luddites protested technological change by sabotaging machines and factories. Today many see technology as a threat to jobs. Although technology has eliminated jobs as machines can produce more things more cheaply than humans can, the price of products has been reduced.
