Practice question · Put in order
Order the eras in the social organization of work.
- Platform era: gig work and algorithmic management
- Industrialization: the factory and the industrial working class
- Fordism: assembly lines, mass production, mass consumption
- Agrarian economy: most labor in the fields
- Post-industrial shift: services overtake industry
Hints
- Each era rebuilt the workplace and the class structure with it.
- Agriculture precedes the factory; the office precedes the platform.
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- Agrarian economy: most labor in the fields
- Industrialization: the factory and the industrial working class
- Fordism: assembly lines, mass production, mass consumption
- Post-industrial shift: services overtake industry
- Platform era: gig work and algorithmic management
Why
Field, factory, line, office, app, each era rebuilt not just jobs but classes, cities, and what a "career" means.
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