SOCA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Harry Braverman, Deskilling, Tertiary Sector Of The Economy
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The post-industrial revolution: automation of the workplace has displaced many individuals from manufacturing while service industry has become more prevalent. Division of labour: refers to the specialization of work tasks more specialized the work tasks, the greater the division of labour: increasing division of labour involves creating new skills. Bad jobs: often defined as having low wages, leaving workers with minimal sense of dignity, being dangerous, being physically uncomfortable, having few prospects of promotion, require less education. Good jobs: often defined as having high degrees of autonomy, providing good wages and comfortable work environments, receiving a sense of fulfilment, being secure. Chapter 13: work and the economy: employers can replace workers with machinery, employers can replace skilled workers with less expensive unskilled workers given the simplification of the work, employers can control workers more directly. Fordism: a method of industrial management based on assembly-line methods of producing inexpensive, uniform commodities in high volume.
