information technology

 

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Integrating at least 3 the learning

resources

from this week, discuss the following: 

  • What is the relationship between technological innovation and work, productivity, economic security, and social class?
  • What opportunities and limitations have been created with the rise of digital technologies? What is the future of work as technology becomes more advanced?
  • What are some ways that employers, policy makers, and workers can adapt to an increasingly digital world?  What skills do workers need to set themselves apart in a world that relies more and more on digital technology?

Remember to use your own words, using your best writing skills, cite your sources, and provide a reference list

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resources
.http://dln.jaipuria.ac.in:8080/jspui/bitstream/123456789/1891/1/MGI-Future-of-Work-Briefing-note-May-2017

https://workofthefuture.mit.edu/research-post/the-work-of-the-future-building-better-jobs-in-an-age-of-intelligent-machines/

https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/focus/technology-and-the-future-of-work/tech-leaders-reimagining-work-workforce-workplace.html

Work and Technology

BEHS

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03: Technology in Contemporary Society

Week Four

Credit: Katherine Im (

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021, June)

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Definition of work

Source: Dictionary.com

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Work [wurk]

noun

1. exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.

2. something on which exertion or labor is expended; a task or undertaking:

3. productive or operative activity.

4. employment, as in some form of industry, especially as a means of earning one’s livelihood.

Origins of work

Pre-Civilization

Work = survival

Hunter-gatherer

Hand to mouth existence

Nomadic

Source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/21/eat-like-a-caveman-the-trouble-with-paleo-living.html

When did civilization begin?
Civilization began around 10,000-2000 BCE in Southwest Asia (Mesopotamia/Sumerians) and in Egypt

Source: http://wps.ablongman.com/long_levack_wc_1/43/11050/2829013.cw/index.html
Image Source: http://www.mrdowling.com/603mesopotamia.html

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What is a civilization?
Source: http://wps.ablongman.com/long_levack_wc_1/43/11050/2829013.cw/index.html

“…a city-based society in which there are differing occupations and levels of wealth wherein elites exercise economic, political, and religious power.”

How was civilization possible?
Man figured out how to harness nature for human gain through the early use of….
Technology!

Bronze Age (around 3000 BC)
Advent of metal tools
Used for:
Protection
Build permanent shelters – end of nomadic existence

Weapons

Tools

Source: http://www.google.com/search?q=bronze+age+tools&hl=en&qscrl=1&rlz=1T4AURU_enUS502US502&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=hWvlUbyWIvbK4AOm24CQBw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1440&bih=698#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=wjyHRtuNefDmBM%3A%3BCSrg21y-Nr2C8M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.artcompsci.org%252Fimg%252Ftoolbox %3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.artcompsci.org%252F%3B191%3B294
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Art

http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/roccos/art203/greece.html
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/47.100.14

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://homepage.eircom.net/~cronews/archive/history/bronze/gorget &imgrefurl=http://homepage.eircom.net/~cronews/archive/history/bronze/bronze2.html&h=434&w=398&sz=57&tbnid=ve8qogIaRfbRoM:&tbnh=91&tbnw=83&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dbronze%2Bage%2Bart%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=bronze+age+art&usg=__LXdBDLxkYN6GJIXy4cdUnzDcEtk=&docid=mOvOum3V4QrbjM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=F2zlUb74CJL_4AOs7ICgBw&ved=0CEAQ9QEwBQ&dur=1857
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Examples of harnessing nature

Building shelter

http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/arts/architec/AncientArchitectural/Mesopotamian/EarlyDynastic/SumerianArchitecture/SumerianArchitecture.htm
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Harnessing wind
Egyptian Reed Ship

http://maritime-connector.com/wiki/history/
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http://www.prlog.org/11223212-gobi-desert-in-china.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Everest_North_Face_toward_Base_Camp_Tibet_Luca_Galuzzi_2006_edit_1
Using land forms for protection

Irrigation

Egypt, 2000 BCE
http://www.mitchellteachers.net/WorldHistory/MrMEarlyHumansProject/MrMEmergingSumerianCityStates.html
Ancient Mesopotamia

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Agriculture (6500 BCE)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080716140918.htm
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Domestication of animals (6500 BCE)
Source of food and labor

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17323/17323-h/17323-h.htm
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Implications of technological advances
Ample food supply
Population growth
Emergence of more sophisticated social structures

Division of labor
Technology led to increased efficiency
Fewer field workers needed
Extra people could do other things – herdsmen, merchants, traders, builders, craftsmen
Beginnings of a specialized work force

Religion (5300 BCE)
Early roots in Mesopotamia (Sumerians) – Largely around agriculture and climate – wanted to appease the gods
Ancient Egyptians (3000-2200 BCE) – polytheistic but began the idea of life after death

Government
Need for government to manage increasingly specialized society
Hammurabi code (1772 BC) – King of Babylonia – 1st set of laws organizing society, establishing punishments for crimes (“eye for an eye”)

Source: http://wps.ablongman.com/long_levack_wc_1/43/11050/2829013.cw/index.html
Image Source: http://www.awesomestories.com/assets/hammurabi-headpiece

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Egypt (3000 BCE)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080328104302.htm
http://www.historyembalmed.org/egyptian-pharaohs/akhenaten.htm
http://www.terminalstudio.com/egyptian-pyramids.shtml
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Europe (3000 BCE)

2600 BCE – the technology that changed Europe

http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/fimage/lincolnimages/ardrey007h
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Ancient Greece 8th-6th C. BCE
Gave rise to…
http://www.romecabs.com/blog/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/nov/07/ancient-world-greece
Ancient Rome – 8th C. BCE

Origins of modern work
Began with civilization and the advent of agriculture (10,000 years ago)
Required planning
Required organization
Required daily effort to tend, harvest, preserve
People worked every day to feed themselves

Technology => Efficiency => Extra Hands
Specialization of the work force
Creation of new class of workers – creation of art, crafts, luxuries
Distribution of wealth
Beginning of social classes
Coins first used in 700 BCE
Beginning of consumerism
Gave rise to economics

http://www.coin-collecting-guide-for-beginners.com/ancient-coins.html
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Economics

Economics is the study of how people choose to use resources.
Many theories about how wealth and goods should be distributed for the good of society
Is economics a “technology?”

Source: American Economic Association
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Fathers of Economics

Chanakya (370-283 BCE)
“Father of Economics”
Guidance on how kings should manage their kingdoms in distribution of wealth

Adam Smith (1723 – 1790)
“Father of Modern Economics”
“Laissez-faire” economics
Individuals act in their own interest, but collectively act in the best interest of society

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanakya
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith
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Middle Ages (5th – 14th or 15th century)

Technologies that changed the way we work
Agriculture:
Plow
Crop rotation (8th century)
Horse Harness – moved from the next to the chest – better breathing, stronger and better hauling

http://scholar.chem.nyu.edu/tekpages/harness.html
Image source: http://rehtwogunraconteur.com/?p=20577

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Mechanical clocks

changed how people conducted their day
allowed people to coordinate activities

http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/pabacker/history/middle.htm
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Weaving & Other Craftmaking

Creation of merchant guilds (11th and 12th centuries) – precursor to unions
Protected one another and families in times of hardship
Set prices and quality
Not adaptive to changes in technology – required guild approval

http://gnc3.wordpress.com/category/middle-ages/
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Weaponry
English longbow – 1300’s
Cannon – 1300’s
Matchlock guns – 1300’s

http://bashapedia.pbworks.com/w/page/13960966/Matchlocks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Englishlongbow
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=medieval%20weapons&source=web&cd=8&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CFEQFjAH&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.technewsdaily.com%2F883-10-medieval-weapons-that-changed-the-face-of-warfare-.html&ei=IZ_lUZT4Nu_A4AOTtoDIBQ&usg=AFQjCNHVjcZQyD0hHu4HfMK6ycbaU8L8cg

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Why was weaponry important?
Allowed well-armed civilizations to become very powerful
Creation of nation states, political alliances
Colonization
Spread of commerce, religion, culture

Renaissance (14th – 17th century)

Ostentatious displays of wealth
Art, education, commerce flourish
Predominant philosophy of the era:
Belief that man was the center of his own universe – why is that important?

http://2renaissance.org/2012/09/04/the-first-renaissance-1/
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Suggests that the answers to human problems lie within humans themselves
Magnified the importance of invention and technological advances

DaVinci
Galileo
Michelangelo
Gutenberg

http://www.biography.com/people/leonardo-da-vinci-40396

http://www.doxologists.org/galileo-galilei/

http://www.biography.com/people/michelangelo-9407628

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Gutenberg

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Industrial Revolution (1750-1800)
Began in Great Britain
Attributed to the confluence of several factors:

http://www.flowofhistory.com/units/eme/17/FC111
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Steam technology

Expanding market

Agricultural success => population growth => creating a market for manufactured goods

http://www.google.com/search?q=marketplace+in+1750&hl=en&qscrl=1&rlz=1T4AURU_enUS502US502&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=I6XlUYTxF_fk4APNoIGACg&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1440&bih=698#hl=en&qscrl=1&rlz=1T4AURU_enUS502US502&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=city+in+1750&oq=city+in+1750&gs_l=img.3…28991.31050.0.31241.12.12.0.0.0.0.198.1015.6j6.12.0….0…1c.1.19.img.UyU7Zj8OBQ0&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.48705608,d.dmg&fp=45b551c64b4d25bb&biw=1440&bih=698&facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=CL729ofBjNX0XM%3A%3B3r_oU7qIhIMJ5M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.landrucimetieres.fr%252Fspip%252FIMG%252Fbmp%252FInnocents_1550petit.bmp%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.skyscrapercity.com%252Fshowthread.php%253Ft%253D1044081%2526page%253D4%3B551%3B300
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Wealth

http://oneinabillionblog.com/category/6-sub-categories/personal-finances-sub-categories/wealth-personal-finances/
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Transportation systems

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g54946-d261414-Reviews-Tennessee_Valley_Railroad_TVR-Chattanooga_Tennessee.html
http://www.lifechurch.ie/bond-servant/
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Colonialism

http://lonehillart.com/category/canvas-prints/
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Social changes due to industrialization

Environmental changes
Factories often dirty and unsafe
Increased pollution of air and water

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/10/05/midday1
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Affordable consumer goods

http://voices.yahoo.com/social-changes-during-industrial-revolution-1018207.html
Image source: http://www.lasalle.edu/~mcinneshin/251/week06.htm

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Improved living conditions
Better sanitation and diets
Increase in population

http://www.umich.edu/~ece/student_projects/food/foods.htm
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Immigration
High rates of migration from other countries to meet work demands

http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Irish.html
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Social stratification
very wealthy
very poor
emergence of a middle class

Gender Roles

Move to cities and physical labor led to higher wages for men – became the “breadwinner”
Higher status for men
Women became more domesticated

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Irish_immigrants_1909
http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Irish.html

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Changes to family structure
Families were smaller – limited space, more expensive to feed more mouths
Fewer intergenerational residences

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Child labor
Low-cost labor
Poor working conditions
Ended with passage of 1800’s child labor laws

http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2011/01/17/tea-party-senator-says-social-security-medicare-and-even-federal-child-labor-laws-are-unconstitutional/
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The 5 day work week
Religion impacted how we work
1849 in Great Britain – factory workers worked 18 hour days
Workers were too tired to go to church
Metropolitan Early Closing Association religious group advocated closing early on Saturdays so workers wouldn’t be too tired to attend church

Source: http://www.readersdigest.com.au/history-of-work?page=2

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How did we get to 5 days?
1850 – British Factory Act – limited the working week for women and children to a 12-hour day on weekdays
1878 – number of hours worked was cut to 56 for women and children
1930’s – the 2-day weekend was standard in the United Kingdom
1926 – Henry Ford (anti-union) closed factories on weekends to boost sales of automobiles
WWII – Clothing sector was heavily Jewish – among the first US industries to adopt 2-day weekend.

http://www.readersdigest.com.au/history-of-work?page=3#sthash.2yeRGXAK.dpuf
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So where are we now?

Service/Knowledge Economy
Doesn’t produce anything
Banking
Retail
Consulting
Software development
Occurred with advent of computing technology and the Internet
Hand in hand with globalization and out-sourcing

Source: Harrington, Ch . 6
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We have become an Information Economy
60% of U.S. jobs are information intensive

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/03/20/58-of-american-knowledge-workers-are-now-working-remotely/?sh=6f619b673303
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Role of technology
Automation – created new types of jobs that required more knowledge than the jobs that were replaced
Computers changed job expectations (e.g., secretary, managers)

Image source: http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/2b/91/07/2b9107f1b65e0fe7159a203c7daa1a0c
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Work-life balance
US ranked 28th in work-life balance among 37 countries (OECD, 2019)
Our perceptions:
Working more hours
Accessible 24/7
Multitasking
High stress levels
Long commuting times

https://www.statista.com/chart/12977/countries-with-the-best-work-life-balance/

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https://www.statista.com/chart/12977/countries-with-the-best-work-life-balance/
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https://www.statista.com/chart/12449/who-works-the-most-hours-every-year/
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Telecommuting (2020)

https://www.oberlo.com/blog/remote-work-statistics
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Pros of telecommuting

http://under30ceo.com/pros-and-cons-of-telecommuting/ http://www.globalworkplaceanalytics.com/pros-cons https://engage.umuc.edu/docs/DOC-4506

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Greater productivity, no distractions (average American workers wastes 2 hours and 5 minutes each day)

Improved worker morale, overall job satisfaction

Decreased strain on infrastructure

Improved GNP, reduce national debt

Saved companies money

Reduced dependence on oil

Reduces carbon emissions by 51 metric tons/year (associated with global warming)

More flexible staffing options

Provides accommodations for those with disabilities per ADA

Time wasted on a commute
Roundtrip Commute (min) Hours per Year 40-hour Weeks per year
20 80 2
40 160 4
60 240 6
80 320 8
100 400 10
120 480 12

https://engage.umuc.edu/docs/DOC-4506
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Cons of telecommuting

Loss of routine

Lack of interaction with colleagues

Lack of oversight

Management mistrust

Worker isolation

Data security

Summary
Work has been fundamentally altered because of technology
Technology has logarithmically changed the pace of work
Work has shifted away from physical labor and the every day need to subsist to knowledge/information work and a lifestyle that affords leisure
Important question – has technology made man unnecessary in the workforce? What are the implications?

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