SOC227H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Class Conflict, Egalitarianism, Hawthorne Effect
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How management exercised control under the japanese model. How workers resisted management control under the japanese model. Similar to work/production process, but it"s from the employees perspective. To extend marx"s analysis to the current workplace looking at control and conflict. Braverman: two avenues of control: new technology: implies fewer workers with less skills, division of labour: divide jobs into smaller, simpler jobs. Easier to control employees with simpler jobs. Smaller jobs = increased efficiency = increased control. Degraded: the work doesn"t have as much prestige/value. Two consequences: as jobs get deskilled, employees lose power and can easily be replaced, increased inequalities between employees and managers. Employee resistance could take place in three different levels: 3 levels (1) absenteeism; particularly on mondays, fridays, fishing seasons, skiing seasons, etc. , tardiness, sabotage, conflict of interest. Controlling output, employees don"t produce as much as they could. Punishing coworkers for doing too much work (binging: unions.
