Impacts of Industrial Revolution in Structure and Culture of American Workplace

Description Choose one (1) of the following topics for your final paper. From the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to the present day, the structure and culture of the American workplace have been affected by many forces, among them capitalism, technology, globalization, and issues of equality. Describe these forces in detail and analyze their impact on the structure and culture of the workplace. OR As the American workplace has adapted its structure and culture to outside forces, the adaptations (such as location of jobs, changes in needed job skills, and organizational restructuring) have had an impact on employees and their families. Describe the way these adaptations have affected workers and families and analyze the responses of workers and families Paper Requirements You should consult at least three outside resources, and this information should be properly documented according to APA guidelines, with a Works Cited page and proper citations. Your paper should tie together and synthesize concepts from the course and analyze relevant sociological concepts. Your paper should acknowledge changes in the workplace over time. Your paper should analyze ways that global, economic, social, and cultural trends have influenced the workplace • Provide a table of contents with pages identified. • section labels Additional: Hi, there are two questions topics. You need to answer only one. Feel free to chose. I uploaded some resources, but you can use any resources that you feel that it may your work better. Remember to label sections and a table of contents. Please see instructions attached. This professor is a pain in the a*, Thanks

Description

Choose one (1) of the following topics for your final paper.

From the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to the present day, the structure and culture of the American workplace have been affected by many forces, among them capitalism, technology, globalization, and issues of equality. Describe these forces in detail and analyze their impact on the structure and culture of the workplace.

OR

As the American workplace has adapted its structure and culture to outside forces, the adaptations (such as location of jobs, changes in needed job skills, and organizational restructuring) have had an impact on employees and their families. Describe the way these adaptations have affected workers and families and analyze the responses of workers and families

Paper Requirements

• You should consult at least three outside resources, and this information should be properly documented according to APA guidelines, with a Works Cited page and proper citations.
• Your paper should tie together and synthesize concepts from the course and analyze relevant sociological concepts.
• Your paper should acknowledge changes in the workplace over time.
• Your paper should analyze ways that global, economic, social, and cultural trends have influenced the workplace
• Provide a table of contents with pages identified.

• section labels

Concepts studied during the term

●             Standardization

●             Division of labor

●             The assembly line

●             Marx’s concept of alienation

●             Bureaucracy; Weber’s description of bureaucratic characteristics

●             Emotional labor

Capitalism in the twenty-first century

●             Downsizing and restructuring

●             Globalization

●             Technological change

●             Structural unemployment

●             Flexibility

●             Total quality management

●             Employee involvement programs

●             Procedural resistance

●             Income inequality

●             Poverty

●             Joblessness

●             Gender inequality

●             Occupational segregation

●             Immigrant workers

●             Standardization and routinization

●             Call centers and the teleservice industry

●             Globalization

●             Bureaucracy

●             Discrimination

●             Dual earners

●             The work ethic

●             Welfare reform

●             Self-sufficiency

●             Working abroad

●             Care workers

●             Parental leave

●             Night-shift work

●             Technical contracting

●             Organizational control