The circumstances in which people apply their labour at work to produce goods and services, such as how they work, who controls their work and what skills they use.
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Industrialisation
Home used to be the unit of production, people worked together to produce resources. Industrialisation created separation of home to work (Division of Labour) Workers no longer owned the products produced/how they are made leading to alienation.
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Taylorism
Breaking down work into its simplest elements, with workers given clear and simple instructions on exactly how they should do their job. Independent of autonomy, creativity and ability of individual work.
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Fordism
Application of scientific management to the mass production of standardized goods using assembly line technology, involving few skills and repetitive work by employees. Used to mass-produce cheap, standardised cars on assembly lines.
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McDonaldisation
efficiency process evaluated to be streamlined, calculability each item processed and given a time, predictability staff treatment to be duplicated world wide, control through technology and supervision reducing staff behviour to machinelike actions.
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DeSkilling
Process through which the skills of workers are removed from work by the application of technology. Aimed at controlling the workforce, reducing bargaining power of workers, increasing production and raising profits.
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Alienation
The condition whereby workers lack power and control at work and have no job satisfaction or sense of personal creativity and fulfilment from their work. Work becomes meaningless apart from as a means of earning money.
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Assembly Line Production
Products travel along a moving conveyor belt, each worker uses machines to carry out the same small task until the product is finished at the end of the line: highest level of alienation.
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Automation
Machinery and computers not only make goods, but also control the speed of production, the input of raw materials and the correction of any mistakes, with very little human supervision: high levels of job satisfaction, low levels of alienation.
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Post fordism
The dominant system of economic production, consumption and associated socio-economic phenomena, in most industrialised countries since the late 20th century.
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Globalisation
The process by which businesses move beyond domestic and national markets to other markets around the globe. Economies, Societies and cultures have become integrated through trade, communication, immigration and transportation.
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Abercrombie
Direct control-direct supervision of workforce by managers. Technical control-nature of jobs and speed of work controlled by technology. Bureaucratic control-workers controlled by a hierarchy of authority. Responsible autonomy-workers given control.
Home used to be the unit of production, people worked together to produce resources. Industrialisation created separation of home to work (Division of Labour) Workers no longer owned the products produced/how they are made leading to alienation.
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Industrialisation
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Breaking down work into its simplest elements, with workers given clear and simple instructions on exactly how they should do their job. Independent of autonomy, creativity and ability of individual work.
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Application of scientific management to the mass production of standardized goods using assembly line technology, involving few skills and repetitive work by employees. Used to mass-produce cheap, standardised cars on assembly lines.
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efficiency process evaluated to be streamlined, calculability each item processed and given a time, predictability staff treatment to be duplicated world wide, control through technology and supervision reducing staff behviour to machinelike actions.
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