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Sociology of Work Sept 23/20 Chapter 2

1) Review

2) Breakout rooms to discuss 2 questions posted as homework

3) Contemporary Theories and Trends

4) Employment-related geographical mobility

5) Documentary – Where the Women Went

6) Group Work

Outline – Chapter 2

Work in the 21st Century

Key Ideas and Concepts § Managerial revolution § Postindustrialism § Deindustrialization § Industrial restructuring § Globalization

§ Economic, technological, political, cultural

§ Logic of industrialism thesis § The creative class

4) Neo-liberalism and the State

Russia, China, India § Looking beyond economic markets

§ What roles do a society’s culture, norms, customs, social networks, state policies, and work organizations play in “transitional economies”?

§ The role of the state in China and India § Large populations § State planning § High annual GDP growth

§ Russia and its uneven path § Mixture of organized crime, communism, and capitalism § High social inequality, oligarchy, corruption still present § A case against market transition theory?

5) Contemporary Theories and Trends

Michel Foucault

§ Views on power as diffused § Power operates through

discourse and knowledge. § Power is NOT a resource

wielded by individuals. § Surveillance and self-discipline

§ Why is the Panopticon a helpful metaphor?

§ How can we apply Foucault’s ideas to contemporary organizations? § Teamwork, peer surveillance,

and self-discipline

Pierre Bourdieu§ How does power operate in society? § Field: structured social relationships; struggles

for position and resources § Habitus: “the dispositions, lifestyles, and

values of social groups that are acquired as part of belonging to that collectivity” (pp. 48- 49 of text)

§ Capital: § How can we differentiate between

different types of capital (e.g., economic, social, cultural, symbolic)?

§ Cultural capital of immigrants and job outcomes

Ulrich Beck§ The Risk Society (1992) § Shift toward flexible labour markets; part-

time, temporary jobs; less pay; less security

§ Reflexivity and individualization § More varied paths through life course § Global competition for work § Heightened skill/credential

requirements § Erosion of social safety nets

§ The “individualization” of risk

Interactive Service and Emotion Work

§ Emotional labour § Managing emotions at work § “Feeling rules” § “Surface acting” versus “deep acting” § Emotional dissonance: self-estrangement at work? § “Emotional proletariat” or “privileged emotional managers”?

§ What role do customers play in controlling worker behaviour? § Moving beyond employer–employee dyad to a “triangle of

power”?

Mobile Workers and Mobile Work

§ Mobile bodies: flows of people between countries § e.g., transnational caregivers, temporary

foreign workers (TFWs) § Flows of people within countries

§ Growing “employment-related mobility” within Canada

§ e.g., Alberta’s oil sands § Mobility and employment insurance for workers § What has been the impact of mobile

technologies? § e.g., telecommuting, hot-desk, virtual teams

Employment-Related Geographical Mobility

• Travel to from and within work and time away from home • Spectrum

• Local, regional, national, international • Time traveling • Time away from home • Organization of your day

• How does it affect your working conditions??? • How does it affect your health???

• Break out rooms - discuss your employment-related geographical mobility

Video – Where the women went

• https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1367614024

Summary of Key Ideas and Concepts § Managerial revolution § Postindustrialism § Deindustrialization § Industrial restructuring § Globalization

§ Economic, technological, political, cultural

§ Logic of industrialism thesis § The creative class § Michel Foucault

§ Power § Panopticon

§ Pierre Bourdieu § Field, habitus § Forms of capital

§ Ulrich Beck § Reflexivity and

individualization § Interactive service work § Emotional labour § Employment-related mobility