Volti, Unit 2 information, chapters 8-10

• Work in Nonindustrial Societies • Technology and Jobs• Technological Change and Life on the Job

Technological Change & Life on the Job• “Industrial technology thus stands indicted as

the destroyer of long-established ways of working that had allowed works to enjoy at least some measure of independence” (190)

• Henry Ford / assembly line• “A major characteristic of an industrial society is

an extensive division of labor” (192)

Scientific Management• “stipulated the precise scheduling and

organizing or work activities, and that these procedures were never to be left to the workers’ discretion” (195)

• Centered around the clock

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Scientific Management• “stipulated the precise scheduling and

organizing or work activities, and that these procedures were never to be left to the workers’ discretion” (195)

• Centered around the clock

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Technology and Jobs• “…technological change often generates

problems which require a great deal of work be done” (173)

• “It can be devilishly difficult to mechanically replicate seeming simple tasks that are being performed by human workers” (176)

• “Technological change does eliminate specific jobs, but it does not eliminate work itself” (182)

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