SOCI2323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Computer Security, Telecommuting, Shift Work
January 15th, 2017
Can you think of any examples of “new skills”?
-PowerPoint, excel
-cyber security
-podcasting
-design of mobile apps
-entrepreneurial spirit
New forms of working arrangements are also implemented:
-factory (out of home) work
-shift work
-part-time work
-“tele-commuting”
Why examine something of the history of transformations in work?
-to illuminate something of the forces shaping the work we do
-to highlight the variability of work and work arrangements… and the possibility of
change
Work in pre-industrial Europe/Canada
Feudalism (from 1100 AD):
-agricultural work primary
-economy was pre-market (produce was not sent intro a market, but used by the
producer most often), pre-industrial (before industrial revolution), pre-capitalist (work
wasn’t a wage contract, people were said to provide work and labour and in return God
would give them stuff in return)
-most worked in agricultural sector, consuming most of what they produced, no mobility
(they continued doing the same work, not working their way up in the world)
-hard, physically demanding work
-fair amount of autonomy (freedom on the job; no supervisor in the background
watching their every move, other than the Lord)
-minimal division of labour; men and women working mainly side by side
-spreading manure, getting hay and dairy, ploughing, etc.
Work in industrial capitalism
From early 1700s:
- emergence of industrial capitalism in Europe, rise of “manufactories”, industrial mills.
-Canada was a late industrializer (still agricultural in 1867)
Industrialization in Western European and North American societies took a capitalist form. This
meant for work:
Document Summary
New forms of working arrangements are also implemented: To illuminate something of the forces shaping the work we do. To highlight the variability of work and work arrangements and the possibility of change. Most worked in agricultural sector, consuming most of what they produced, no mobility (they continued doing the same work, not working their way up in the world) Fair amount of autonomy (freedom on the job; no supervisor in the background watching their every move, other than the lord) Minimal division of labour; men and women working mainly side by side. Spreading manure, getting hay and dairy, ploughing, etc. Emergence of industrial capitalism in europe, rise of manufactories , industrial mills. Canada was a late industrializer (still agricultural in 1867) Industrialization in western european and north american societies took a capitalist form.
