SOCI 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Mcdonaldization, Scientific Management, Rationality
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Falling wages:point to fact that real wages of young people vis a vis older employees over last. 30 years have continually fallen & w/ their economic status & power in society. Diminished security:rise of insecure & precarious work -0-hour/casual contracts. Enable employers to transfer labour from fixed costs to variable costs -> maximise profits. Education system:acts as holding house for youth -do not appear as unemployed. Public purse covers training instead of employers -underemploymentas evidence. Educational expansion:necessary as contemporary world of work & occupations become more complex & require attainment of more knowledge. Greater freedom: weakening of social cues that previously signalled adulthood. Marriage, buying house, stating family -more lifestyle choice & experimentation -young people choose to delay entry to labour force. 1st industrial revolution - farm - factory(1760 -1840) Machine labour replacing human labour -age of reason. No need to work 5 days a week] Technology/microelectronics: world wars (invention/r&d, rise of factories & assembly line (fordism)
