SOCI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Expert System, Precarious Work, Jobless Recovery
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1st ir - farm to factory (1760-1840) 2nd ir - specialization (1920 - 1960) Division of labour grows; mass production / bureaucracy. 3rd ir - service sector (1980 - ?) More men and women who are in need of service. Manufacturing moves to cheap labour sites (offshoring) Providing services is profitable (in finance, communications, etc) Population growth: more people -> more workers / more consumers. Productivity enhanced: total output grows with dofl. Power - detailed division of labour increased management"s control of the production process. Breakdown of occupational tasks into finer and finer components. Social division of labour exists in all known societies. Technical division of labour is a product of industrialism. Detail work (fragmented skills) (e. g, mcjobs - low skill, poor pay) Recently - labour market allocates (buyers & sellers of labour) Recently - greater and greater assertion of managerial control. Bosses decide what gets down, when, where, how.
