SOCI 2030 Lecture Notes - Wage Labour, Abraham Maslow, Luddite
Document Summary
You can get money for a service, money for a product. Markets develop, market develops for products, services, labour, and land (bought and sold) Labour market as following if you have a shortage of skills, and there is shortage of those skills in the market, you can ask for more money. Employers pay for a set amount of work and employers determine how that work is done crux of the matter. Workers used to be independent but they lost control of the workplace because it became governed by standards of efficiency. Started along time ago with the collapse of feudalism and rise of factory production. So works used to be independent, had discretion, but as efficiency became more important, employers took over the workplace, and instructions given to workers, if you do it this way, it will be most efficient and most productive.