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Work and Rationalization
In this chapter, you should learn to do the following:
1. Explain how rational thought is replacing the influence of religious thought throughout society.
2. Describe Weber’s six core features of a bureaucracy.
3. Rationalize how a society’s division of labour defines its mechanical or organic solidarity.
4. Define Taylorism’s role in the management of workers, its consequences for workers, and what it looks like today.
5. Explain Marx’s theory of alienation and its connection to precarious work under capitalism.
6. Clarify how Arlie Hochschild adapted Marx’s work on alienation for her research on emotional labour.