SOC 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Iron Cage, Scientific Management, George Ritzer

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Carolyn Gordon

Document Summary

Nonstandard jobs which are part-time, contractual, and seasonal work or when you hold multiple jobs, work made with temporary worker agency and self-employment. 100 years has the world changed as we see it now. The older generation is staying in the job market later in life, past the age of. The younger generation is entering later because of increased education. Woman are now more prominent in the job market, making a little less than half of it. Rapid growth towards the service industry: sociologists are concerned about the decline of jobs in manufacturing industries because these jobs have long represented good jobs in terms of wages, benefits and security. Deindustrialization: often refer to the shift from goods to a service based economy: this causes a host of long term economic and labour market difficulties such as a rise in unemployment and increasing income inequality. Extrinsic rewards: rewards such as high wages, good benefits employments security and opportunities for advancement.