This match-up activity is designed to help students strengthen their knowledge of the organisation and control of the labour process. By linking short descriptions to the correct sociologist or study, students practise connecting names to ideas such as scientific management, deskilling, worker control, surveillance, flexibility and post-Fordism. It is a useful way to revise the work of key thinkers including Marx, Durkheim, Taylor, Braverman, Mayo, Foucault and Ritzer, while building confidence with one of the main areas of the Work, Poverty and Welfare topic.
Work, Poverty and Welfare: Labour Process Match-Up
Match each description of the organisation and control of the labour process to the correct sociologist or study. This activity covers division of labour, Taylorism, scientific management, McDonaldisation, deskilling, alienation, surveillance, post-Fordism and Disneyisation.
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Sociologists and Studies
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