SOC227H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Deskilling, Panopticon, Scientific Management
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Soc227 lecture 10 worker resistance & employer. The previous sessions talked about managerial approaches that take an optimistic consensus view: everyone wants to cooperate and get along, workers must trust managements guides and outlines, management just needs to find the right tools and strategies. This is why employers look for temp. workers, cheap labor, replacing labor with technology. Many of these models have not lived up to management theo(cid:396)ist"s (cid:272)lai(cid:373)s. Labor process perspective stems from early marxist theories: also d(cid:396)a(cid:449)s f(cid:396)o(cid:373) we(cid:271)e(cid:396)"s (cid:449)(cid:396)iti(cid:374)g systems of domination and bureaucratic authority. Labor process perspective *key points: conflict is to be expected in work place conflict can lead to change [not always bad], views work as an unclear social construct. Work can involve a living thing, market/non-market, paid/unpaid. Understanding work, and questioning the assumptions used when creating work. Most work that is valued are those making profit: in the work setting, work is organized and accomplished through constant negotiations between employers and employees.
