SOC207H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Session 9, Industrial Revolution, Contingent Work
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Soc207 lecture 10 march 21st, 2017. *readings - chapter 10: conflict and control in the workplace & chapter 11: unions and industrial. Relations: why still a tension between employers and employees over control in the workplace, understanding these issues through the labour process perspective, unions and workplace control, some more final exam information. Conflict and control in the workplace: the workplace is a constantly shifting frontier of control between workers and employers. It can be a force for positive change if it is channelled properly. Employers" responses to growing internal & external pressures in the 1970s and 1980s: profit crisis in fordism and changing economic environment decline of the fordist. Compromise : path 1: automating production, path 2: reorganizing production, path 3:internationalizing production. Why still the tension over workplace: stems from the ongoing efforts of these 3 paths, reorganizing production (e. g. the new management paradigms discussed in session 9) Many have not lived up to employees" expectations:
