SOCI 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Wage Labour, Employee Monitoring, Juliet Schor
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Rural to urban migration (move from countryside to urban areas: workers move in numbers and far in distance, workers "pulled" by new jobs. Jobs and job growth are mainly in urban areas: workers "pushed" by loss of access to land. People were losing access to reproduce and stay alive on their land. People with land can provide their own food, shelter and do not need public resources or need a job. People who have no access to land or can"t grow food, they are willing and able to work because that is how they stay alive: migration within countries and between countries. New notions of time management and workplace discipline. Western history" - juliet schor: workplace is separated from home, work life and private life as distinctive social spheres, workplace surveillance. Bosses/ owners own you for the set time you work for them, so they can watch to make sure you are doing your job.
