SOC341H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Labour Market Flexibility, Metalworking, Education In Japan
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Castells the work process in the informational paradigm pg. In the 1990"s there were several factors that influenced the transformation of work: computer technology, global competition, companies based on flexible work and networking. New designs of chips, new software-writing, largely condition the fate of the electronics industry. New knowledge has to be discovered, then applied to specific purposes in a given organizational/institutional context. An optimum combination of worker/machine in the execution of tasks is set to automate all standard procedures, and to reserve human potential for adaptation and feedback effects: most production activity takes place in organizations. United states and italy: workers were displaced, because the main goal of introducing new technology was to reduce labor costs. These are generally jobs that are not skilled enough to escape to automation but are expensive enough to be worth the investment in technology to replace them.
