SOC 248 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Deindustrialization, Deskilling, Protestant Work Ethic
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How a labor system is organized in society, each person has a task within the materials. Workers could specialize to allow for a quicker and cheaper production of. Concern about manipulation of labor market: some regulation is good. There should be a common bond between workers engaged in the same tasks. Mechanical solidarity: people come together naturally without thinking about it. Organic solidarity: each person contributes to the whole like organs of the body. Work is a gift from god that should be rigorously pursued like religious duties them. Workers become disengaged from doing routine work that means nothing for. Capitalism yielded a division of labor and productivity. Capitalism also led to deskilling of workers and more solidarity in industrial. Work was not just hard, it was meaningless . Happens at individual, national, and regional levels societies an advantage over others. Comparative advantage: each area should specialize in what it does best to have.