SOC310H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Computer Engineering, Creative Destruction, Wage Labour
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Chapter 1 capitalism, industrialization and post-industrial society. Work: activity that provides a socially valued product or service: through work we transfer raw materials into something that is desired by society. Micro level of analysis: individual, looks at how people experience their jobs, how they adapt to working conditions that are far from ideal and how they try to improve these conditions. Industrialization: accumulation and processing of a society"s resources. Feudal society: society that showed early signs of capitalist activity (industrial revolution hadn"t begun yet) Feudal europe was a pre-market economy (producer was also the consumer) Pre-capitalist economy (rare wage labour and no business class) Putting out system: merchants distributed work to peasant households which led to larger workshops that made metal, cloth, goods, etc: this system allowed more women to be put in the paid work force. Industrial mill: early inventions helped create this: combined many workers under one roof and the control of managers, working conditions were poor.
