Work and Welfare
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- Created on: 17-03-18 16:54
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- Sociology- Work
- Work= carrying out of tasks which involve physical or mental effort and the objective is to provide production of goods or services
- Formal Economy= includes the official paid employmen
- Informal Economy= is the non officially recorded work and is divided in three different. parts
- The hidden economy- which is the work done in hand for cash and non recorded on an official payslip
- Domestic economy- work done at home which includes childcare and unpaid housework
- Communal work- unpaid work
- Paid Work
- People work in paid employment for different and varied reasons
- to find company and friendship through work mates
- for status and identity
- for job satisfaction and for money
- On the other side, people might work in paid employment solely for money reasons as they don't enjoy their job
- People work in paid employment for different and varied reasons
- Technological development at work
- Mechanisation lead to division of labour in which each worker has a specific task to do in which workers aren't involved in whole production process
- Mechanisation benefited the consumer as the goods were cheap and people only needed for certain tasks
- Alienation
- Many people may gain little job satisfaction from their work
- Karl Max argued that industrial workers might be alienated from their work emphasizing on the powerless, meaningless, isolation
- features of Alienation
- lack of power: no power/ control over the work process
- lack of meaning: they feel their work has no meaning or purpose
- Work= carrying out of tasks which involve physical or mental effort and the objective is to provide production of goods or services
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