SOCY 122 Chapter : Sociology of Work.

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

Work is inescapable part of everyday life. Not complex or sophisticated: simple and basic. Goal was to keep the majority content and entertained. Classic greece and rome viewed work as inevitable: hardships for humans for their original sin. Invisible hand: each individual pursuing their own particular interest. Contributes to overall wealth of the nation: vary rational allocation of resources that benefits society as a whole, free movement of investment, productive labour to areas of high demand. Regulation of production: wealth of a nation relies on division of labour. Takes longer to create an entire product from beginning to end. Workers concerned with only one specific aspect: economic surplus was based on division of labour. Allowing unregulated economy to determine where people would invest. What jobs would be created and what jobs would be eliminated. Generate material progress: rational analysis leads to development of social wealth through laws of free market, perspective of the worker.