macro level: forms of work control

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macro level forms of work control

• 3 systems of control

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3 systems of control

• i) SIMPLE usually goes along with Paternalism
  As a worker, you have control over the task, but
  not the time (i.e. deadline) Monetary reward
  Paternalism relations.
• ii) Technological control, (based on machine
  control)
• iii) Bureaucratic control, based on Human
  relations Post Industrial System

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Each involves different rule systems.
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INTERACTION at the FACTORY Macro factors

• External environment control over market
• Ownership Founder of firm
• Type of control system

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• In simple control, usually i) Paternalism
  control through exchange of and manipulating
  personal relations
• Ideology
• ii) Technological control, The linking of dollar
  to time. Time a factor in production, you are
  paid for what you produce by the clock, People
  work like mad.

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What is the Division of Labor?

• Boss the autocrat, son
• Considered trained, unionists, cutters, All are
  men.
• The people that supervise, men and women
• The sewers of different ethnic backgrounds,
  Ethnic division of labor.

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Rewarding the worker

• Careersup? down?
• Recruitment, training, discipline, honor role
  of family, personal relations

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Meso level Factors

• Role of network, ethnicity, gender
• Work and family intersects Family life course
• Family organizes its members for production
• Family earning unit? Individual earners?

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Microsystem INTERACTION

• assembly line and interaction how technology and
  how other social relations affect interaction
  (machinese separated kinship recruitment)

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• how we are socialized to join the factory
  Breaking in
• Concept of social space in work place, how
  organized,
• Emotion work front/back stage
• How time enters work
• Conversation