SOSC 1140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Protestant Work Ethic, Scientific Management, Utopia
28 Aug 2018
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If laying off ppl, how to get ppl to buy if (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge our e(cid:454)isti(cid:374)g paradig(cid:373) world and defined the 2nd industrial revolution. More work, fewer workers! rethink the role of human beings in the social process, pressuring incoming issue: a third sector voluntareering for community based organizations that would create new jobs to rebuild neighbourhoods and deliver social services. These third sector workers would be paid a social wage for their services. The financing would come from value added tax on non essential goods and services and military budget cuts the steam engine first rev. oil and electricity 2nd rev. replaced physical human tasks. Now in the third rev. robots, information and communication and software are doing the work of the mind. Trying hard to hold on to jobs and get more hours: eventually phased out. Employed people with shorter hours with leisure time will turn to mass entertainment and consumption.
