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The Early Factory System
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This term describes actual effort exerted in production
What is "labor?"
100
This man developed the set of management practices known as "scientific management."
Who is Frederick Taylor?
100
This researcher found that informal groups emerge in workplaces and define values, norms, and sanctions (customs, levels of effort, punishments, etc.).
Who is Elton Mayo?
100
A mechanized feeding operation that quickly "fattens" cattle up prior to slaughter.
What is a "feedlot?"
100
According to Kathy Newman, this is the big dividing line in American culture.
What is the line between those who work and those who don't?
200
This refers to the challenge that management faces in terms of extracting "labor" from the purchase of "labor power."
What is the problem of worker control?
200
This is the first principle of scientific management.
What is the disassociation of the labor process from the skills of workers?
200
This refers to the philosophy of continuous improvement in the production process.
What is "kaizen?"
200
This was one of the first companies in the world to patent seeds (i.e. life).
What is Monsanto?
200
This refers to the tendency to subdue feeling of uncertainty about one's salvation and glorify God through work.
What is the Protestant Ethic?
300
The film "Modern Times" depicts the trials and tribulations of assembly line work. How does the assembly line exercise control over workers? What do sociologists call this form of control?
Technical control: Technical control involves designing machinery and planning the flow of work in order to force a certain pace of work on workers. Technical control permits the firm to reduce, or eliminate, the importance of close supervision by supervisors. By reducing the importance of supervisors, technical control helped reduce the conflicts between employers and supervisors. It also reduced the pressure on firms to find highly skilled supervisors.
300
This is the second principle of scientific management.
What is the separation of the "conception" and "execution" of work tasks?
300
This refers to an employee suggestion for how to improve production in the Japanese Management System.
What is a teian?
300
This causes bloat, acidosis, and abscessed livers when fed to cattle.
What is corn?
300
This refers to rational behavior in pursuit of efficiency.
What is "formal rationality?"
400
This refers to the use of close supervision, abuse, profanity, and threats in order to extract effort from workers and obtain desirable behavior.
What is the "drive system" (described in Jacoby's "The Way It Was")?
400
These two qualities distinguish assembly line work from other industrial jobs according Ely Chinoy.
What are “Surface mental attention” and "mechanical pacing"
400
Over time, Rinehardt et. al found that employee participation at the CAMI plant: Decreased, Increased, Stayed the same?
Decreased.
400
George Ritzer might use this term in order to describe the cleansing of slaughtered beef with ammonia at industrial slaughtering operations.
What is the "irrationality of rationality?"
400
According to Eisenberger, what are the three components of the work ethic?
Moral duty as a worthwhile person to work hard Willingness to exert high effort to achieve material well-being Pride in one’s work skills and in the quality of the
500
This refers to the home-based production of goods, in which tools and equipment and power are the responsibility of the outworker, that dominated manufacturing prior to 1900.
What is the "putting out system?"
500
This economic period in US history was marked by The standardization of products; mass production; economies of scale; domestic markets A labor process governed by scientific management A social compact between owners, workers and the state (Keynesianism; social democracy), which afforded a living wage
What is Fordism?
500
Name three ways in which managers at the CAMI plant engaged in cultural engineering in order to improve production.
Efforts to minimize hierarchical distinctions; Language; Employee participation programs
500
This ethnic group is dominates among strawberry workers in California.
Who are Mixtec Indians?
500
Explain how fast food workers develop a "rebuttal culture" in order to manage the stigma associated with their jobs.
This is an open-ended answer.