Chapter 12 Flashcards
Industriall Revolution
Moved work from farm to factory went from family farms to impersonal assembly lines
Information revolution
Invention of the computer with their technology called workers towards you or white color service work
Deindustrialization
Decline of industrial production that occurred in the United States after about 1950 the Konomi started creating new service jobs and losing all industrialism jobs
Globalization
Expansion of economic activity around the world with little regard for national borders
Think big corporations things made in dozens of country
Primary labor market
Jobs that provide workers were good plan extensive benefits
Do you include lawyers positions engineers executives
Secondary labor market
Jobs that provide workers with low pay and few benefits retail sales telemarketing building maintenance one of the benefits
Barbara ehrenreich
Did research to see what it was like to do low income work Learn that Low wage jobs do not pay enough to live on
Toxic substances control act
Set guidelines for handling dangerous materials on the job
Alienation
Powerless in the workplace resulting in the experience of isolation and misery
How does capitalism produce worker alienation
Making work a Series ofsimple task instead of the entire production Workers have no say in what to make and how to produce it
How does capitalism alienate workers
Their jobs from the products they make from each other and from their human potential
Max Weber
Sociologist Him alienation is depersonalization not just in the workplace but throughout society as well
Rationalization of society
webers though
Rationalization of society Storkel change from tradition to rationality as the typical white people think about the world
McDonaldization
Defining work in terms of the principles of efficiency predictability uniformity and automation
Mcjobs
Series of simple tasks that a worker repeats over and over people fiind little satisfaction in
George ritzer
Father of McDonaldization
Gig Economy
Companies and other organizations the contract was independent workers for specific work over short period of time example Uber
Reasons for unemployment
Being laid off being between jobs looking for work
Reasons for the missing worker
Low wages and dropping out of the labor force operating with a smaller workforce do the computers unemployment moving from one job to another people opting out of the conventional economy
Recession 2008
People return to work facing that their jobs pay less than what they earned in the past what jobs did pay enough to support standard of living
Recession 2020 pandemic
The economy shut down many people are living with little or no power consumer spending was way down unlimited economic growth The jobs may not match the jobs people once held
recession
When there is a business cycle contraction business become smaller Decline an economic activity Occur when there’s a drop in spending
Workplace segregation
Lower and jobs go to people of ethnicity
Hi and jobs like physician go to women and men that are white but mostly men
Women make out better than minorities
Workplace segregation
Lower and jobs go to people of ethnicity
Hi and jobs like physician go to women and men that are white but mostly men
Women make out better than minorities
Labor unions
Worker organizations that sick to improve wages and working traditions negotiations and strikes
Jean Debs
Union activist to fight for workers rights to bring about socialism in the workplace
Unions today
How many people are looking to unionize due to low-paying jobs
Majority signing up unions
It’s a majority of workers sign a card saying they want a union the union will be formed and all workers will be required to join and pay dues
Right to work
When did the power of the most require a membership and juice from workers as a condition of hiring or vote
John kasich
Saw the problem giving public workers unions too much power and money and threaten to bankrupt state
Information revolution
Transforms the workplace today today’s jobs require new skills computers how we do work
The home is a workplace
Due to technology people can work from anywhere especially from home
Working from home problems
It’s hard to separate work from home being isolated left out a key decisions and overlooks the promotions
Work place isolation
Care technology has reduced the need for face-to-face meetings and for telephone calls growing workplace isolation
Automation
The use of automated machinery or other equipment to perform work
Deskilling workers
Decisions without direct humanist distance computers during the jobs of people
Do computers make better decisions than people
Unclear example mortgage companies and Sally May lending mortgage is due people afford it decisions made by computers
Work in the workplace structural functional theory
When’s the operation of the workplace to other aspects of society including technology example industrial revolution and the information revolution and how they should the workplace
Work in the workplace structural functional theory understanding workplace problems
Rapid changed can disrupt the social order causing problems new technology loss of many traditional jobs
Work in the workplace symbolic interaction
Meanings people attached to the world around them people in primary labor market defined their work in positive terms people and secondary labor market find little positives to their job
Work in the workplace symbolic interaction workplace problems
Problem secondary market I’m not able to find much positive meaning you must look for satisfaction outside the workplace
Face social conflict theory
Winks workplace to social inequality the cabinets elite as defined by Marks does all the work against the profit workers are at the exploitation of the few
Work in the workplace social coflict Theory Problems
Capitalism creates well for the few and alienation for the working majority weber agreed alienation is a workplace problem
Work in the workplace feminist theory
Gender is basic organizing principles of all society including the workplace Georgia viewed as feminine or masculine men’s work valued more
Work in the workplace problems feminist theory
Gender segregates many workplaces according to Stocks women hold feminine jobs that are disadvantages in terms of income and power
Radical left work place problems
Capitals market system is the cause of economic problems placing profits ahead of people
Radical left Workplace solution
Worker should own and control the means of economic production government acting in the interest of the population government responsible for economy
Liberal view workplace problem
Market system productive but it doesn’t ensure the welfare of all low wages unemployment problems in the US
Liberal view workplace solution
Allowing market forces to operate government regulates economy workers receive living wage and are protected from discrimination
Conservative workplace problem
Market system is highly productive support standard of living government regulation is the problem
Conservative workplace solutions
Greatest number of people will benefit if market forces are allowed to operate freely the Konomi does a good job of this
