SOC227H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Deskilling, Knowledge Worker, Kaizen
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How management exercised control under the japanese model. How workers resisted management control under the japanese model. Terms to know labour process deskilling degrading of work conflict of interest kaizen. Marx was wrong about the revolution but correct about the conflict between managers and employees. Marx sends us the message that we should look at the following 5 below. Similar to work process or production process except it is from the employee perspective, employee provides the labor which has two other aspects below. Extend marxism"s analysis to the current workforce, especially looking at control and conflict. Labor process is a explanatory theory, not perspective. Question of why and how things work the way they do. Labour process it is looking at work and production from the employee"s perspective. The employee provides the labour, the labour is distinct from a couple of aspects, the machinery and the organization of work.
