SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Fixed Capital, Mass Production, Consumerism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

Relationship between employers and employees and the nature of the labour force. Socioeconomic change that has influenced the relationship between employers and employees. Economic production requires fixed capital: machinery, tools, software, mateerials to be worked on, place to be worked on, human action. Employers determine the type of workers they want the work they want done, methods of work. Employer purchases their ability to do work. Relationship is central to the social construction of the social relations of labour process. At micro level of relationship employee with specifc skills knowledge with specific goals desires are hired. Loss of autonomy, impairment, and freedom cause of work at micro level. Messel level and represent the social costs of paid work at macro social level. Macro level- employer and employee opportunities are shaped by resource distribution that gives some opportunity to be employee and others employee. Money does not allow some to be at higher position.