SOCI 3600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Deindustrialization, The Employer, Soft Skills
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Lecture five: precarious work and the service sector. In the 1970s, daniel bell differentiated amongst work in pre-industrial society where work was a game against nature. In forests and mines, fishing industries and hunting industries. You are really wrestling with natures in your work. Industrial societies had a more mechanized or technologically advanced approach to work. In industrial societies had more technologically advanced societies where work was a game against fabricated nature. He was suggesting that in a post-industrial society work was presented was a game between persons. What becomes important in the post-industrial society are personal skills: at the broadest level service work is about performing activities for others. The others may include individuals one to one services, personal services. It may include organizations such as businesses cleaning: service then includes a diversity of activities. It includes physical activities preparing meals or repairing appliances. It also includes intellectual activities such as teaching and training.
