Work Trends - Contractors, Temporary Workers, Annualised Hours
Changing working environments
Trends
· Use of contractors
· More temporary workers
· Annualised hours
· More part-time working
· Self-employment
· Hiring consultants
Employers
Advantages
Disadvantages
1. Less cost less employment costs helping the business compete
2. Hiring consultants bring experts into the business
3. business can cope with sudden and unexpected changes in sale
4. Less hiring costs
5. Les costs. Flexible workforce can reduce employment costs, helping
a business to compete more effectively with other businesses
6. Using a consultants and self-employed people bring expertise into
the business
7. The use of consultants and self-employed people means that
businesses do not have to pay to them
1. Difficult to communicate with P/T and temporary workers-don’t know
them
2. More labour turn over
3. Poor reputation as employers
Good effects o employees
· Some employees, such as these with responsibilities for looking
after young children, want only part-time or temporary work. They
would be happy to be part of a flexible workforce
· Working as part of a team can be a good experience. Employees may
enjoy working with other people and learning from more experienced
workers. Research says that working in tem can raise morale
· Some employees may prefer to be employed as teleworkers, working
from home. Teleworkers do not have the cost and the bother of
travelling to work everyday. They can live where they wish and need
not to be close to the business that employs them
Bad effects on employees
· Some workers may be very dissatisfied with temporary contracts. They
might want the security of a permanent job and not feel committed to
the business. They may feel unsettled and want to look for other work
Is college worth all the stress of paying for it? People spend thousands of dollars with multiple jobs or student loans trying to pay for it. Alana Semuels wrote an article called “Manual Labor, All Night Long: The Reality of Paying for College”, stating the stories of young students who are working hard to be all that they can be. College is stressful and working a job at the same times makes it that much more stressful.
Marx’s theory of alienation gives an insight on how the working class and the average worker do not see themselves in their work. The product they are producing is not for them and they do not own it, thus they feel alienated. They feel alienated from the product they are making, from the work itself, alienated from themselves and from other workers. Alienation in contemporary context still happens to this day, for example, with both sweatshop and factory workers in third-world countries and office workers in Western countries. Marx’s solution to capitalism and it’s result of alienation was communism, he theorised that if the consequence of capitalism was alienation as well as private property, those could be positively eradicated by the way of
The first form of alienation that Marx distinguishes is the estrangement of workers from the product of their labor. Marx states that, “the worker is related to the product of his labor as to an alien object” (Marx, 50). Because the worker does not own the fruits of his labor, he becomes more estranged the more he produces. According to Marx, it is a basic economic fact that “with the increasing value of the world of things proceeds in direct proportion the devaluation of the world of men” (Marx, 50). In other words, the more a worker produces, the more his individual value diminishes in comparison to all of the material objects he creates, but does not possess. Marx describes how the conditions of capitalism lead to the objectification of labor because u...
There is deep substance and many common themes that arose throughout Marx’s career as a philosopher and political thinker. A common expressed notion throughout his and Fredrick Engels work consists of contempt for the industrial capitalist society that was growing around him during the industrial revolution. Capitalism according to Marx is a “social system with inherent exploitation and injustice”. (Pappenheim, p. 81) It is a social system, which intrinsically hinders all of its participants and specifically debilitates the working class. Though some within the capitalist system may benefit with greater monetary gain and general acquisition of wealth, the structure of the system is bound to alienate all its participants. This paper intends to evaluate Karl Marx’s theory of alienated labour. In doing so it will demonstrate how capitalism both a century and a half ago, and to this very day, produces and also perpetuates alienation within the work environment. Though Marx’s theory of alienation is not without its flaws, the fundamental backbone to his theory is still relevant to this day. A critical element is to take Marx’s basic premises of alienation into context and realize that the capitalist world has evolved tremendously since Marx’s work during the early years of Industrial Revolution.
Marx states the following: “Private property is, therefore, the product, the necessary result, of alienated labour, of the external relation of the worker to nature and to himself” (Alienated Labour 280). This quote concludes an essay of the explication on alienated labour. Marx’s alienated labour relies on what he deems a new type of materialism. In this essay I will examine this statement with respect to three essays: “Alienated Labor”, “Theses on Feuerbach”, and “Ideology in General, German Ideology in Particular”. I will critically analyse his statement in three ways: first, by detailing Marx’s new form of materialism; second, by addressing the four aspects of alienated labor: (1) the worker as alienated from the product of his labour,
1:During the industrial revolution factory workers used to work 11 to 12 hour per day and six days , six days per week.
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The staffing effectiveness report is used by hospitals to assess how nurse to patient ratios and nurse work hours are associated with patient outcomes. Further, the staffing effectiveness report allows hospital leadership to identify areas which need improvement and monitor areas that are operating within acceptable standards. The safety and quality of patient care are directly related to the number of staff as well as their competency and skill level (A.H.R.Q., Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2017). NCH uses the clinical indicators of fall prevalence, falls with injuries, and ventilator-associated pneumonia and the human capital indicators of nursing care hours and overtime, to measure the effectiveness of the staff.
In his work, Marx presents the process of Alienation. For him, that means that the maker of a product is pretty much forced feel his creation (the product) as something strange and not normal. Marx describes the process of Alienation as “dehumanizing” because it takes away the “human” out of us. We don’t get to do things as we want to do them; we do things as we are told to do and we are constantly kept of a track. In Alienation, we work like zombies and even become robots while working because we are not putting any thought into the process of creating the product nor have any joy while making it. Marx thinks that labor is one of the essential differences that we have with “non-human” animals. We do things because we want to do them and not because we have to do them. He then talks about “Alienated labor” that occurs under capitalism. Working in capitalism can be seen as a positive and a negative thing. It is positive for the employer because he takes the finished good and sells it in order to make profit. He loses money because he pays for the labor of the workers. Working in capitalism is negative for the worker because he is constantly being monitored from his boss and doesn’t have freedom at all. When you work in capitalism you make your boss rich and not yourself. In
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The employability of American workers has been uncertain for many years. Reasons such as outsourcing, overseas manufacturing, and automated services are all factors that have greatly contributed to both the recession and continuous poor job growth. We have lived in the Twenty-first Century for nearly fourteen years, and have yet to fully embrace job market changes. The fast-paced technology driven world that we live in has opened a gap in the need of several job types, however the characteristics of success are mostly the same. A successful individual will always need to have good character, education, and adaptability; the challenge is tweaking these qualities to fit into the new Wi-Fi world.
What is labor? Labor is the effort, time energy we put forth as we work towards accomplishing a goal. Karl Marx believed in in a theory that alienation often occurred in the labor field and in his opinion the feeling isolation was only a small fragment of the big picture. For Marx, laborers could be distinctly alienated in four ways through capitalism: product alienation, process alienation, essence alienation, and human alienation. Throughout this response essay I will define Karl Marx’s beliefs on the alienation of labor and will also analyze the issues in this way of thinking.
Marx believes that under capitalism, man is alienated in four different ways. First, he says that man, as producers, is alienated from the goods that he produces, or the object. Second, man is alienated from the activity of labor to where the tools are taking control of the user. Third, man is alienated from himself through integrated social interaction. Finally, Marx believes that man is alienated from other workers because he experiences other workers as threats and competitors. In all of these forms of alienation, Marx views alienation as materialist, with labor at the center. Marx believes that his theory of alienation takes three faces: God, the State, and Money. Since Marx believes that emancipation means freedom, human emancipation is
13% of people with disability are more likely to run their own business and another 9% work from home. Some situations may enhance the flexibility of working arrangements, making it easier for people with disability to participate in the labour force.
Marx's theory of alienation has to do with the separation of things that logically belong together. According to Marx, alienation is a universal result of capitalism. Marx's theory of alienation is based upon his observation that, within the capitalist mode of production, workers consistently lose determination of their lives and fates by being deprived of the right to envision themselves as the administrator of their actions. Workers become autonomous, self-realized people, but are lead and diverted into goals and activities set down by those who have power. Alienation in capitalist societies takes place because the worker can only express this basic social aspect of individuality through a production system that is not communally, but privately owned (Marx, 2007).