SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Deskilling, Blue-Collar Worker, Sigmund Freud
Document Summary
The labour process: control over work and workers. The labour process : how labour is used to produce goods and services: allocation of labor to different aspects of production/service. How certain jobs are assigned to others. Workers negotiate what it looks like, individually or through unions: the use of technology. The assembly line > the rise of fordism. The use of computers in the labour process ; mobile community technologies: intensity of effort. The degree of effort and piece of effort they seek from the employees (how fast and how hard you work) The degree of effort given by the employees themselves. Relationships labor process as employers" efforts to determine who does which kind of work and how they use technology and workers" responses to these decisions. Power power of the employer to make decisions about production but workers" also respond to employers" efforts. Influence of marxist concepts of power, conflict, control and resistance.
