Labour - week 17

Question 1

ORGANIZATION

Answer 1

a group with identifiable membership that engages in planned collective actions to achieve a common purpose

Question 2

BUREAUCRACY

Answer 2

• most of the important decisions are made by state officials
• the most common type of formal organization
• Rules and hierarchy = efficiency

Question 3

BUREAUCRATIZATION

Answer 3

organization molding into a bureaucracy

Question 4

McDonaldization

Answer 4

the wide-ranging process of rationalization occurring across Western capitalist societies (principles of McDonald’s being emulated by other organizations)

Question 5

The Iron Law of Oligarchy

Answer 5

The principle of organizational life under which even a democratic organization will eventually develop into a bureaucracy ruled by a few individuals

Question 6

THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE

Answer 6

• refers to the myth of femininity being the end goal and source of happiness for women
• being a perfect wife and mother will lead to happiness and when this doesn’t happen it leads to discontent

Question 7

THE SECOND SHIFT

Answer 7

• Women live two work lives – first shift in the labour force (paid labour in the public sector) and second shift at home (unpaid labour in the private sphere)
• it is women in couples who sacrifice their leisure time to tend to the household labour and care work