WGS355H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5-6: Piece Work, Femininity, Factors Of Production
10 Feb 2016
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Worker resistance ca take individualized forms such as sabotage, theft and work avoidance. Such actions reflect greivances about work organization and treatment on the job. ---- meaning the workers can resist, they protest. Worker resistance especially in its collective form. Especially important would be the presence of unions. Assesments are gender made therefore workers addressed in productin through the category they were hired. Gender operates throughout global production, framing decision about technoplogy, hiring and labor control therefore this gender meanings and practices name, describe and create workers shop-floor subjectivity with consequences for both resistance and productivity. Feminity linked to productivity and masculinity to sloth and disruption. Standard for women seen as submissive and intelligent which they are assessed in the industry--- doctility acquired on shop-floor not ready made. Breadwinning role --- he is high priced or cheap if women otherwise. We remain male or female as we move across in the social world , our.
