SOCA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Labor Market Segmentation, Deskilling, Harry Braverman
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Soca02 week 7 chapter 13 work and the. Computers reduce our work hours; making goods and services cheaper by removing distribution costs of capitalism. Allows us to enjoy our leisure time. Computers liberate us; allows us to become more mobile and: according to wired more creative. Economy the social institution that organizes the production, distribution. Work of nurses, teachers, lawyers, hairdressers, computer. Each economic sector rose to dominance through revolution, structuring programmers & etc. social inequality along the way: the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution. People used to live in tribes, however people in fertile valleys began to herd cattle and grow plants using simple hand tools. Stable human settlements spread, farmers invented the plow and attached plows to large animals, expanding amount of land cultivated. Productivity the amount produced for every hour worked. International exploration, trade and commerce stimulated growth of markets from the fifteenth century. Markets: social relations that regulate the exchange of goods and services.
