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Chapter 12 Flashcards

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Industriall Revolution

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Moved work from farm to factory went from family farms to impersonal assembly lines

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Information revolution

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Invention of the computer with their technology called workers towards you or white color service work

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Deindustrialization

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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

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Globalization

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Expansion of economic activity around the world with little regard for national borders
Think big corporations things made in dozens of country

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Primary labor market

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Jobs that provide workers were good plan extensive benefits

Do you include lawyers positions engineers executives

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Secondary labor market

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Jobs that provide workers with low pay and few benefits retail sales telemarketing building maintenance one of the benefits

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Barbara ehrenreich

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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

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Toxic substances control act

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Set guidelines for handling dangerous materials on the job

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Alienation

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Powerless in the workplace resulting in the experience of isolation and misery

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How does capitalism produce worker alienation

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Making work a Series ofsimple task instead of the entire production Workers have no say in what to make and how to produce it

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How does capitalism alienate workers

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Their jobs from the products they make from each other and from their human potential

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Max Weber

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Sociologist Him alienation is depersonalization not just in the workplace but throughout society as well

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Rationalization of society

webers though

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Rationalization of society Storkel change from tradition to rationality as the typical white people think about the world

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McDonaldization

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Defining work in terms of the principles of efficiency predictability uniformity and automation

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Mcjobs

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Series of simple tasks that a worker repeats over and over people fiind little satisfaction in

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George ritzer

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Father of McDonaldization

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Gig Economy

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Companies and other organizations the contract was independent workers for specific work over short period of time example Uber

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Reasons for unemployment

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Being laid off being between jobs looking for work

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Reasons for the missing worker

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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

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Recession 2008

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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

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Recession 2020 pandemic

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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

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recession

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When there is a business cycle contraction business become smaller Decline an economic activity Occur when there’s a drop in spending

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Workplace segregation

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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

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Workplace segregation

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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

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Labor unions

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Worker organizations that sick to improve wages and working traditions negotiations and strikes

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Jean Debs

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Union activist to fight for workers rights to bring about socialism in the workplace

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Unions today

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How many people are looking to unionize due to low-paying jobs

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Majority signing up unions

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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

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Right to work

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When did the power of the most require a membership and juice from workers as a condition of hiring or vote

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John kasich

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Saw the problem giving public workers unions too much power and money and threaten to bankrupt state

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Information revolution

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Transforms the workplace today today’s jobs require new skills computers how we do work

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The home is a workplace

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Due to technology people can work from anywhere especially from home

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Working from home problems

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It’s hard to separate work from home being isolated left out a key decisions and overlooks the promotions

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Work place isolation

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Care technology has reduced the need for face-to-face meetings and for telephone calls growing workplace isolation

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Automation

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The use of automated machinery or other equipment to perform work

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Deskilling workers

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Decisions without direct humanist distance computers during the jobs of people

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Do computers make better decisions than people

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Unclear example mortgage companies and Sally May lending mortgage is due people afford it decisions made by computers

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Work in the workplace structural functional theory

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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

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Work in the workplace structural functional theory understanding workplace problems

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Rapid changed can disrupt the social order causing problems new technology loss of many traditional jobs

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Work in the workplace symbolic interaction

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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

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Work in the workplace symbolic interaction workplace problems

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Problem secondary market I’m not able to find much positive meaning you must look for satisfaction outside the workplace

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Face social conflict theory

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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

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Work in the workplace social coflict Theory Problems

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Capitalism creates well for the few and alienation for the working majority weber agreed alienation is a workplace problem

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Work in the workplace feminist theory

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Gender is basic organizing principles of all society including the workplace Georgia viewed as feminine or masculine men’s work valued more

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Work in the workplace problems feminist theory

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Gender segregates many workplaces according to Stocks women hold feminine jobs that are disadvantages in terms of income and power

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Radical left work place problems

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Capitals market system is the cause of economic problems placing profits ahead of people

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Radical left Workplace solution

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Worker should own and control the means of economic production government acting in the interest of the population government responsible for economy

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Liberal view workplace problem

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Market system productive but it doesn’t ensure the welfare of all low wages unemployment problems in the US

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Liberal view workplace solution

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Allowing market forces to operate government regulates economy workers receive living wage and are protected from discrimination

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Conservative workplace problem

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Market system is highly productive support standard of living government regulation is the problem

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Conservative workplace solutions

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Greatest number of people will benefit if market forces are allowed to operate freely the Konomi does a good job of this

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