Sociology 1027A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Unintended Consequences, Profit Maximization, Precarious Work
15 Mar 2017
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Inequality at work: who gets the good and bad jobs, how do different people experience work, who gets ahead at work. Industrialization and urbanization lead to unique issues addressed by a new type of social science: sociology. Industrial work: mundane, boring, routine, routinization & deskilling, scientific management (taylorism, he devised the basic foundation of work, theory applies scientific principles and methods to labour management and involves creating divisions in the labour process. Its methods sough to rationalize work and make it more efficient by dividing it into smaller and smaller tasks: assembly - line controlled work (fordism, stress, alienation. In industrial nations: unionized, high salaries, well-established work hours, changes/ improvements in production processes, this work has been disappearing - due to, automation, off-shoring - going to low labour developing countries, ex. In developing nations: sweatshops, like early industrialization in europe and us. 3: vast majority of canadians are in jobs that are not analytical service jobs, but are important.
