SOCIOL 3 Lecture 13: SOCIOL 3 – Lecture 13 Notes
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Occupation is usual response to question: what do you do? . Seen as the essence of our humanness by such disparate figures as. Work is universal; how it is organized is not. We take the concept of a job for granted most people have one. Early factory jobs notoriously dull, dirty, dangerous. Owners of factories wanted to maximize profits reduce costs and keep productivity high. Key: control workers & get the most effort/result from them with the least trouble & lowest wage. Argued that organization of work is not just about efficiency or technical stuff. Instead of factories and offices are places that are defined as a result of struggle between management and workers.
