Chapter 12 Learning Objectives

Workplaces

In this chapter, students should learn to do the following:

  1. Understand the difference between capitalism and socialism.
  2. Explain the Industrial Revolution and how it impacted society and the workforce.
  3. Understand the relationship between post-industrialism and the global economy.
  4. Understand how the evolution of technology (e.g., telecommunications) led not only to employment opportunities, but also unemployment.
  5. Explain the role of bureaucracies in the work force.
  6. Understand how five different theoretical perspectives (structural functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interactionism, feminist theory, and social constructionism) explain the role of work in society.
  7. Understand the various social consequences of work, including gender discrimination, racial and ethnic discrimination, and alienation of the worker.
  8. Explain why sex workers and child labourers are considered vulnerable populations.
  9. Understand the different definitions of unemployment and its measures.
  10. Explain the factors that can contribute to unemployment.
  11. Understand the health consequences of work.
  12. Explain the solutions to work-related social problems, including unemployment.
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