SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Labour Monthly, Scientific Management, Job Satisfaction
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SOC 207H1F
NOV 30, 2011
•Worker Ownership and Collectives
•Worker Cooperatives
•Workplace Democracy
–one member, one vote
–votes on decision making in the labour process
•Worker ownership and control
–Control over the labour process
–Control over how profits are distributed
–Wholly Grains Bakery
–Moto: ‘food for people, not for profit’
–Community and social justice focus
•Wholly Grains Organizational Structure
•Authority resides in collective membership, or in subgroups and committees
established by the collective.
•People work across lines of work called ‘shifts’
–Eliminates gain of power over other when they constantly shift from
different skilled
and unskilled tasks to another
–Less division of labour
–Monthly shift meetings
•Removing the distinction between mental and physical labour
–Different from Taylorism which separates mental (managers) and
physical (labourers) work
•Challenges to Wholly Grains
•Degenerating into traditional capitalist enterprise