soc of work 1

Question 1

work

Answer 1

The mundane task through which individuals create value and sustain themselves

Question 2

Wage labor

Answer 2

exchange of effort for monetary compensation

Question 3

Proletarianization

Answer 3

Process by which people go from being pre modern (slave , peasant) to a proletariat

Question 4

Proletariat

Answer 4

a social class of people who need a job

Question 5

Smithian

Answer 5

• thought wage labor was natural
• Propensity to truck and barter
• Accelerated division of labor based on natural skills
• Replacing wages for barter

Wage labor derived from human nature

Question 6

Marxian

Answer 6

-thought wage labor was forced
-There is no labor market in feudal society
- One must be created by force
“Primitive accumulation” of capital

• Wage labor was coercive
• Came about from state policies

Question 7

wage labor and freedom

Answer 7

creating freedom : Unshackling individuals from tradition-bound work

restricting freedom: Relations of authority within the workplace, Structures class inequality in society

Question 8

Doubly free labor-
Two conditions:

Answer 8

Legally free to form a contract
“Free” from means of production

Question 9

MARX exploitation

Answer 9

Appropriation of the unpaid labor of workers

outcomes: class system, exploiting capitalists exploited proletariats

Question 10

M surplus labor

Answer 10

On a work day, make 100 dollars worth. Only get paid 40 dollars→ this is what is necessary to live and sustain yourself. The 60 is what Marx calls ____

Question 11

M labor

Answer 11

the process of conscious transformation of the material (and/or symbolic) world

the actual work people do + extra baked in

Question 12

M labor power

Answer 12

the capacity to work e.g. strength, education

potential to work

Question 13

WEBER rational discipline

Answer 13

consistently rationalized, received orders, depersonalized, methods of measurement, no dissapearing punishment

Question 14

substantive rationality

Answer 14

• a discussion over the ends of action
• “What are we going to do?”

Question 15

instrumental rationality

Answer 15

• “How are we going to do it?”
• Increasing the adequacy of means for achieving a certain end
• Ways to achieve the end

Question 16

W outcomes of rational discipline

Answer 16

class domination: class systems arise between giving and receiving orders,
Relationship of domination rather than exploitation

stuff gets done

Question 17

W discipline

Answer 17

a rational way of organizing human action

Question 18

W Depersonalized

Answer 18

rules and procedures are applied consistently towards everyone

if not: results in discrimination, employee dissatisfaction, disruptions to productivity

Question 19

FOUCAULT panopticon

Answer 19

surveillance —> compliance and self discipline

Question 20

F features of panopticon

Answer 20

Visibility, individuation, surveillance is continuously visible, but unverifiable

Question 21

F workers response to systems of surveillance

Answer 21

Self-discipline (see how this is opposed to Weber’s idea that discipline comes through being overtly told what to do)

Question 22

DELFANTI Machinic dispossession

Answer 22

the act of Amazon taking the valuable data about what the workers were doing, but that he felt belonged to the worker

Question 23

Algorithmic control

Answer 23

Advanced machines surveilling and giving out orders (and dehumanizing the workers?)

Question 24

exploitation in AMAZON

Answer 24

Amazon is squeezing every drop of extra value from workers using advanced technology and control/discipline

Question 25

rational discipline in AMAZOn

Answer 25

“Orders” are being given out according to algorithms

Question 26

concept of panopticon and surveillance in AMAZON

Answer 26

Workers are being watched and FEEL it

Question 27

racial capitalism

Answer 27

Capitalism and resulting economic Inequalities/class systems are intertwined with race

Question 28

DUBOIS divisions in the labor force

Answer 28

In some cities, emancipated Black workers went to the north and worked for wages that White immigrants would not accept
* Therefore White immigrants blamed Black workers for the cheap price of labor
* Race wars ensued rather than
Black and White workers uniting together for better working conditions)

Question 29

Bourdieu social capital

Answer 29

membership in societies, relations, networks and alliances

Question 30

Bourdieu cultural capital

Answer 30

Ways of speech
The kinds of music and art they are interested in
skills

Question 31

Bourdieu how is capital transferred

Answer 31

Families, intergenerational, through networks

Question 32

B how is capital related to workplace

Answer 32

As Gibbons pointed out, “good” jobs and workplace treatment can depend on the social and cultural capital held by the worker
Showed that economic capital (e.g. money), wasn’t the only factor -› because he was in an unpaid setting (prisons)

Question 33

Race vs. religion

Answer 33

• The former is biological and therefore permanent

race is a justification for marginalization

Question 34

“color line”

Answer 34

economic exploitation is structured with
European and American city-dwelling wealthy Whites as the exploiters,
and other racialized groups as the exploited

Question 35

racialization in work force

Answer 35

Apple - able to get a large amount of value by centering manufacturing in geographies (that are comprised of racialized
workers) with low wages and poor working con[litions