SOC433H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Consciousness Raising, Fax, Blue-Collar Worker
Document Summary
Symbolic and material how sick building syndrome come into context. Initially it is under the guise of increasing efficiency: symbolically new architectural designs serving to heighten cultural boundaries, separate while collar from blue collar, managerial and office working class from production. Industrial workplaces, clean, quiet, risk free, displays of luxury and class position and authority (tennis club-outside the building-upper middle class white collar). Engineered to control to inner environment, designed as a machine, computer technology, computerized office demands a lot of energy and produces a ton of heat, therefore it needs to control energy expenditure: computerization. Trying to expose the chemicals that the workers are exposed to as measurable, quantifiable (by toxicology reports) Survey instrument is trying to capture broader ray of symptoms. Chemical exposures are contentious events -whether or not people are exposed, harmful, do or not, necessarily involve litigation, lawsuit, blaming the organization, physical suffering, include different kind of politics, science, minimize, deny or show exposure.
