SOC239H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Repetitive Strain Injury, Job Performance, Knowledge Economy
Document Summary
Stress process and life approach have one thing in common: understanding how people navigate transitions, however . Stress process views transition in terms of coping and adaption. Life course approach views transition as markers of individual"s movement thru life. 3 major shifts: (1) from manufacturing-based economy to new knowledge economy, (2) globalization, (3) women"s participation in the labour market. Fordism dominant most of the 20th century until newer modes of production: lexible (lean) production which was inluenced by globalization. Flexible production moved the production of goods to be entirely based on consumer driven. Flexible production further began to organized workers into groups (as workers who are the most knowledgeable about the production process to workers who are most likely to think of ways to improve) Flexible production and globalization had both (+) and (-) outcomes: separated into good and bad jobs: Bad = jobs lacking skills necessary for the new economy.
