SOCC15 LECTURE 8 + 9

a regime of accumulation (a system of regulating profit-making) in place from 1945-1970, that reflected a class compromise between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat

beliefs or practices that mark people or group of people as unworthy of fair treatment, dignity as equals

• 1) economic/legal/institutional structures
• 2) management objectives
• 3) technology influencing work design
• 4) workplace politics/role of unions

• functional flexibility 
• numerical flexibility

Work flow and organizational techniques that encourage worker engagement, de-specialization and ongoing training to innovate production processes.

Scheduling and employment arrangements that allow companies to adjust the size of their workforce based on short-term production needs.

a system to optimize worker productivity by scientifically establishing "best practices"

1)Gather workers’ knowledge of their jobs

2)Reduce tasks to simple, routine operations

3)Rigorously select workers, train them in established methods

4)Eliminate discretion, planning, coordination from workers’ jobs

• construction of inferiority (labelling, rendering invisible, stigmatizing)
• discrimination (denial of resources, imposition of social costs)

• 1) workers gain responsibility but not authority 
• 2) competition vs. cooperation