IRE240H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Class Conflict, The Work Foundation, Industrial Revolution

• School: UTSG
• Department: Employment Relations, Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources
• Course: IRE240H1
• Professor: Pohler

Document Summary

Chapter 2: the broader debate-3 theses on the nature & development of industrial. Relations, the economy, and society: capitalism thesis=radical perspective; industrialism thesis=orthodox pluralist and managerialist perspectives; industrial capitalism thesis=liberal-reformist perspective. Karl marx and the capitalism thesis: reflect outrage against living and work conditions of working class, and commitment to the revolutionary overthrow of capitalist institutions. Exploitation: workers are at disadvantage--have to compete for employment--employers can then bid down wages to the minimum, workers produce enough value to pay to pay for their wages for the whole day in the first. Emile durkheim and the industrialism thesis: assumes that societies develop in ways that are functional for all and order and progress rather than conflict and stagnation represent natural course of economic and social development. Emile durkheim and the division of labour: argues that the growth of working class movements and emergence of class conflict reflect problems associated w/ transition from pre-industrial to an industrial society.