Historical Background Class 1

Administrative Any questions about quizzes or journals? Keeping up with reading?

Review Office Space Work Experience of the class Note everyone in the class has work experience Most people doing summer or part time work different from what they hope to being doing for their careers Distinction between work and jobs Any questions about the reading to this point?

Today Distinction between characteristics of job and characteristics of work Make the class a job offer! Terkel Historical Context of Work

I. Distinction Between Work and Job? Which characteristics belong to the work and which to the job? Pay? Hours? How many hours? When hours are worked? Repetitiveness/tedium? Noise? Heat?

Characteristics continued Which characteristics belong to the work and which to the job? Co-workers? Customers/Clients? Physical danger? Job security? Opportunities for creativity? Importance of the work to society? Can you think of other examples?

Characteristics continued Extrinsic Intrinsic

II. Make the class a job offer How many of you would quit school and take this job right now? How many of you wouldn’t quit school but would agree now (i.e. sign a contract) to take this job after you graduate? How many of you would not take this job? What does this tell us? Job characteristics versus work characteristics? Extrinsic v. Intrinsic factors

III. Terkel – Working Who likes their job the most? What do they like about it? Who likes their job the least? What do they dislike about it? How do the likes and dislikes correspond with what the class said about their jobs? Which of these jobs seemed best and worst to you? Why?

IV. Historical Context of Work What kind of work did most people do in 1800? Who did the work? Who worked? Who didn’t? What kind of work did most people do in 1900? What kind of work do most people do in 2011? Who works? Who doesn’t?

Next Time Continue the discussion of the historical context of work

Historical Context of Work Class 2

Administrative Return quizzes at end of class

Review Characteristics of jobs and characteristics of work Types of work people did 100 and 200 years ago and who worked and who didn’t

Today The role of work in the worker and family’s well-being and identity Changes in work over last 200 years

I. Role of Work in Life Frederick Harbison, "The industrial worker, for the most part, works harder than he likes, at tasks which are frequently arduous, usually monotonous, and sometimes dangerous. On the job, he is nearly always subject to the direction of higher authority. His income is seldom sufficient to cover what he thinks his needs demand. The natural state of the industrial worker, therefore, is one of discontent."

I. Role of Work in Life William Faulkner, "You can't eat for eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours a day - all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy"

I. Role of Work in Life Who are you? How do people describe who they are? Why? Has this changed over the years?

II. Changes in work and jobs How have work and jobs changed over the past 200 years? Over the past 25 years? What has caused these changes?

Next Time Conceptual Background of work