Banerjee's Changing Context Of Work

Banerjee examines the topic of changing context of work arguing that the technology industry has suddenly divided people’s views. Banerjee does this by addressing the importance of critical indicators, which are leisure and balance of work in a worker’s daily work that has been evolving during the development of capitalist shifting against leisure irrespective of growth in productivity. He attributes increased leisure time to be due to reduction of workweek hours that led to balancing of work with time at workplace leading to shorter working hours, allowing for more leisure and social interaction time. However, he suggests that leisure times are reduced due to higher hourly rates being paid to the workforce as an incentive, leading to increased

He begins chapter 13 by explaining the reasons labor found in families have been replaced by the capitalist idea of marketplace that seeks to serve the capitalist through replacing the existing family businesses. He illustrates this through showing how traditional family businesses like bread baking and weaving have been replaced by cheap manufactured goods in the marketplace. This topic helps us to understand the changing context of work where labor in family business shifts to monopolized business because of cheap manufactured goods provided by

He has attributed the issue of heavy employee monitoring to contributing to bad relationship between management and employees. For instance, he shows that employees are monitored through their phone calls, voice mail and videotaping, which has led to issues of privacy at workplace. This topic helps us to comprehend the changing context of work at workplace where employees increasingly perceive their privacy being violated by their