Question

“There is a whole range of work settings from large companies where work is automated to small home-based production.” Analyse.

Answer 1

• task of the manager to control workers and get more work out of them
• extending the working hours and organising work
• production is speeded up through scientific management and assembly line
• work is broken down into its smallest repetitive elements and divided between workers
• use of machinery actually deskills workers
• time slavery in IT sector
• Home-based work is an important part of the economy. This includes the manufacture of lace, zari or brocade, carpets, bidis, agarbattis and many such products. This work is mainly done by and ***. An agent provides raw materials and also picks up the finished product. Home workers are paid on a piece-rate basis, depending on the number of pieces they make.
• Mining-bas working conditions, dangerous for both overground and underground mines.