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Future of Work Flashcards

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Meritocracy

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System of government based on rule by ability instead of wealth or social status.
Job qualifications

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Sociology of Work

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Social relations
Behind the scenes actors
Historical structures

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Social Inequality at work

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  • When Meritocracy isn’t working
  • “Quintessentially American”
  • Basic needs can’t be met
  • Lack of social mobility
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Standard Employment

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  • Continous
  • Full time
  • Direct relationship between employee and employer
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Fordism (Industrial Labor)

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  • Mass production of standardized good on assembly line

- Semiskilled labour

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Union Memberships

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  • Peak time: 1979

- Purpose: power to negotiate for more favorable working conditions and other benefits

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Collective Bargaining

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Negotiation of wages and other conditions of employment by an organized body of employees

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Labor Relations

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Owners of means of production
- lowest possible wages & benefits
- expand profits to new markets
- rests efforts by workers to mobilize & fight back
Labor Performers
- forced to sell labor for going rate
- repetitive & unsatisfying jobs
- struggle for better wages & job conditions
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Karl Marx and Capitalism

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  • Pursuit of Profit
  • Class based labor struggle
  • Proletariate vs. Bourgeoisie
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Power Elite

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  • Occupy strategic command posts of social structure in society
  • Interwoven interest of leaders of:
    gov./politicians
    business leaders
    military leaders
  • Interchange positions in economic, political, social & military realms
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Blue Collar Jobs/Workers

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  • hard manual labor
  • low job security
  • Unskilled (skilled through trade school)
  • Physically exhausting
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White Collar Jobs/Workers

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  • Desk job
  • Suit and tie
  • Mental attention
  • Skilled through college/university
  • Stable w/specific skills
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Global Capital

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  • Buying and selling of financial securities on an international level
  • Interlinking investment exchanges
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Multinational Corporations

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Operates in various countries around the world

- produces or sells goods/services in various countries

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Subcontracting

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Employing a person outside of company to perform a job as part of a larger project

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Dual Labor Market

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Primary
- Unionized
- Educated
- Men of similar backgrounds
- Blue & White collar professionals
Secondary
- Women
- Migrant workers
- Easily replaceable
- Impoverished
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Racialized Jobs

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  • Hierarchical arrangement limiting employee agency and mobility based on race
  • Stereotypical qualities imposed upon radicalized person
  • Subordinate Labor Groups: Black/Hispanic
  • Dominant Racialized Labor Groups: White/European
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Immigrants in US economy

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  • cheap unskilled labor

- > 1/3 of workforce

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Precarious Labor

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  • Temporary work
  • Lower wages
  • Dangerous working conditions
  • Filled by women, minorities, and undocumented people
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Standard Labor

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  • Long term
  • Opportunity for advancement
  • White/European Men
  • Skilled/Educated
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Factors Leading to Shift of Precarious Labor

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  • Globalization
  • Deregulation
  • Decline of Unions
  • Neoliberalism Economic Policies
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Neoliberalism (Economic Philosophy)

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  • Transfer control of economic factors to private sector from public
  • Favors free market capitalism
  • Opposes gov. spending, regulation, and public ownership
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Double Movement - Karl Polanyi

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Push for social protection against marketization

1st Movement:

  • Bourgeoisie encourages creation of a market utopia
  • market is given life of its own away from society
  • Nature and humans as “fictitious commodities” of land and labor

2nd Movement:

  • Protests against ravages of free market
  • preserve all social factions except bourgeoisie
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Contingent Labor Schedules (Halpin reading)

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  • no explicit or implicit contract for long-term employment

- minimum hours worked vary in non-systematic manner

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Surface Acting

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Displaying of emotions required for job without changing how they actually feel

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Deep Acting

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Changing of internal feeling to match organizational expectations
- more natural and genuine emotional display

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Feeling Rules

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Socially shared norms that influence how individuals want to try to fell emotions in given social relations

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Aesthetic Labor

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Screening, managing, and controlling workers on basis of physical appearance

  • “being the brand”
  • attract customers/consumers
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Immaterial Work & Inequality

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Not purchasing, but still interacting with tangible products

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Role of Customers (Power)

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Satisfy desire and needs of customers

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Pivot Points

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Used to determine overall trend of the market over different time frames

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Motivations (Adler & Adler)

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  1. Challenging nature of work
  2. Managers had greater opportunity to integrate work and leisure interest
  3. Managers motivated by co-workers
  4. Material Comfort
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External Labor Market

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  • Upper level positions open to all, not just current employees
  • Wider choice for senior appointments
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Inbetweenness (Wilson)

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Second generation citizens receive resources from Mexican families and American community where they were born and came of age

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External Labor Market

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  • Upper level positions open to all, not just current employees
  • Wider choice for senior appointments
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Career Jobs

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  • View jobs as permanent

- Get low/no skill jobs that pay enough to support and look no further

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