To begin with, tell them that they will need to look at the essay questions today

Later we will be doing a trial reflective exercise

When my colleagues and I were faced with redundancy we were placed in a unique position. Or perhaps it wasn’t quite so unique, just unspoken; ‘experts’ are not renowned for publicly applying their own theories to themselves. After years working as labour researchers or workplace change consultants we found ourselves in the position of having the stories we told other workers and their managements about why change was happening being reflected back to us by our managers and the people employed to facilitate our departures. We shifted from being purveyors of the discourses and narratives about why change was necessary to sitting in judgement of whether these very discourses and narratives applied to us, made sense to us, or were believable.

Armed with more information than the average potentially redundant worker, we gathered around photocopiers, water coolers, staff room dining tables, coffee shop booths, each others desks - and discussed, argued, complained, questioned. As labour researc

Who basically frame it around “trials of strength”. Craft vs mass production, small artisans vs the megacorporation. The computerisation of the workplace means that there has been a shift back to valuing labour because of the machine. The advent of microelectronics has fundamentally altered the production process. You need workers who know how to read the machines. The growth of industrial communities and the feedback processes eg networks in northern Italy. Again, don’t say how the change originates, referring to the power of the customer. Give example of local south-east Melbourne input into large automotive assembly plants.

Firstly, work through a reflective exercise

Task specialisation Worker has multiple tasks

Firstly, I argue that the macro literature orders perceived events in a particular way to demonstrate that ‘globalisation’ or ‘restructuring’ is happening, and a particular vocabulary of concepts is constructed to show how and why it is happening. These ‘events’, the writers argue, must be responded to in particular ways by governments and organisations in order to succeed in this new ‘competitive’ and ‘global’ environment. The emphasis here is on increasing competitiveness through introducing high-quality, lean production processes, and marketing strategies aimed at quick response to customer demand.

Some topics in this essay:
Globalisation Story, Lash Urry, Hirst Zeitlin, Cohen Zysman, Morson Emerson, Let’s Globalisation, Integration Economies, Piore Sabel, TV Pre-existing, Adam Smith, workplace change, production processes, globalisation story, reich 1991, production process, basically frame, western industrial, lash urry, lash urry 1994, hirst zeitlin, economic growth, hirst zeitlin 1991, 1988 basically frame, technologies systems production, ruigrok van tulder,