SOC231H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: The Communist Manifesto, Wage Labour, Industrial Revolution
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First, industrialization involved a more productive use of the factors of production (land, labour and machinery) partly obtained by introducing new methods of organization to production: the factory, a combination of power technology, specialized machines and specialized occupations. Before each industrial revolution, most manufacturing occurred on a small scale method: second, industrialization involved a great increase in the productivity of human labor in terms of output per head. By measuring tasks, managers gained even more control over the worker"s performance. This form of work organization is called fordism: emerging stereotypes reinforced the belief that work and family life w ere two separate spheres. 19th-20th century, large number of working women were effectively excluded from participating in many trade and professional occupations , while men succeed by using patriarchal strategies to conceptualize and defend skill and profession as male property. Laisses faire-a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering.
