SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pink-Collar Worker, Human Resources Development Canada, Saskia Sassen
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Social and economical changes has led to the thought that we have moved out of the industrial era into a postindustrial society. Number of workers in factory was decreasing. Education, health, social welfare, entertainment, finance sectors was ris- ing. White collar workers began to out number blue collar workers. Bell, argued that postindustrial societies would engage most workers in the production and dissemination of knowledge rather than in goods productions as in industrial capi- talism. Industrialization had brought increased productivity and higher living standards, post industrialization society would usher in an era of reduced concentration of power. This means power will not remain in the hands of a small group of individ- uals. Knowledge workers (technicians, professionals, and scientists) would become a large and important class. Bell, felt that knowledge workers would become the elite of the postindustrial age. Florida, like bell sees the shift from goods to knowledge as a crucial change. Suggests there are 3 classes of creativity.
