SOC301Y1 Lecture 6: Lecture 6
Document Summary
Upper classes tried to tone down ambitions of lower classes. How to divide results of cooperative activity. 19th cent, this issue comes up in context of new process of production. Arrival of machinery tht was more productive; key innovation was steam engine. Changes process of work- factory work can go on 24/7: changes process of production, increases productivity and output, makes work more continuous. Industrial labour in mid 19th cent and before, three existing models: centralized planning, cooperatives (workers org own process of production), hierarchical org of work under factory capitalist. Uncertainty of side of owners and resentment from workers; why should skilled labourer now work as labourer on factory floor, while owner who doesn"t understand process, be able to org whole process. Increase in pollution due to high use of coal. Either factory owner who owns capital and machinery, or factory workers, or inventor (trouble with steam engine and invention is tht there is no single inventor)
