LABOR 280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Labour Power, Working Time, Industrial Revolution
10 Feb 2017
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Labor 280 - lecture notes thursday february 2, 2017. Work day and work process is routinized. Have to learn new skills didn"t build on old ones. Loss of creativity management has more control. Pace and nature of work is changed and more controlled. From lowell"s dream to a nightmare for immigrants: Shortage of workers went back home. Recruited immigrants to work for them when everyone else quit. Can"t go back to their country unlike the mill girls. Have to earn the wage no other resources. Had more control of design and pace of execution. Informal not as many rules - can take breaks whenever. Wrestling control from skilled workers: contest over power. Creation of the foreman: needed workplace control - used the push system. Organized collectively was able to bargain better if there was a big group of people. Substitute new forms of control regarding hours, wages, and conditions.
