The document discusses the evolution of work from pre-industrialization to modern times. Pre-industrial work was decentralized, home-based, and involved whole families. The Industrial Revolution introduced steam engines, factories, and the division of labor. This led to regular working hours, a decline in women's work, and the shift from family to single wages. Fordism represented highly organized mass production while post-Fordism embraced more flexible and customized production with diverse, skilled workforces. The knowledge economy now values highly skilled, multi-tasking workers and fluid team structures over rigid hierarchies.
23. Protestant Ethic New Social Groups (or Classes) Division of Labour New Technologies + Factories New Markets Higher Production Growth of Cities Agricultural Revolution
24. Capitalism is the “spread of production for profit on the basis of wage labour”
35. Fordism Post- Fordism Flexi-Specialisation / PoMo Products and Product Customisation Mono / No customisation Diverse with some customisation Multiple / High customisation and design No. of Workers, Skilled Tasks High, Minimal Medium, Skills diversity required Low, Highly skilled Work Hierarchy High and very bureaucratic Different teams on different areas / products Minimal / Fluid teamwork Level of Organisation Highly organised Flexibly organised ‘ Dis-organised’
36. Fordism Flexi-Spec Class Identity Job Security Trade Union Power Skilling Personal Commitment ? ?
38. From Organisations to ‘Organisations’ From Jobs to ‘Jobs’ From Colleges to ‘Colleges’
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41. “ You think CNN lacks focus – what is focus, anyway?! If you’re alive, all the time, how can you have focus? Focus is something a newspaper has, because there is a day to think about it. Or with a magazine there’s a month. Whoever said that was a yo-yo!” (Ted Turner)
42. “ CNN’s executive VP for news gathering arrives at CNN center in Atlanta at about 6.00am, checks domestic and international news desks to see what’s happened over the night. From then his work is mostly 50 to 75 phone onversations and quick, stand-up meetings . He doesn’t attend committee meetings. There are no committees to have meetings! It never takes more than 3-4 folks, all located within a few yards of each other, to make any one decision, with no fuss, on the spot and often on the run . Chairs, it seems, are also for yo-yos!” (Peters, T. 1992 Liberation Management,p.33-34 )
