#67: Workers save the organization
Today, the term ‘worker’ has little to do with manual or industrial-type work. It has more to do with the way managers perceive and treat the people who are at the lowest output producing level of the organization.
At this basic level, workers are mere commodities, because they are plentiful, cheap, inter-changeable and disposable. When there is more work to be done, more workers are hired; when there is less work to be done, workers are discarded until the number of workers more closely matches the amount of work to be done.
This insidious practice stems from the industrial revolution when, for the first time, large groups of workers were paid by the hour. And to this day, workers carry the cost of ‘saving’ the organization from financial ruin.
No wonder debates on the minimum hourly rate for workers still raises tempers on both sides of the divide.
I’m james@nonsenseatwork.com
Copyright: 2007 James Henry McIntosh
James can be heard on Public Radio, 88.9 FM WCVE, Richmond VA.
Monday - 7:19am and Saturday - 8:19am
At this basic level, workers are mere commodities, because they are plentiful, cheap, inter-changeable and disposable. When there is more work to be done, more workers are hired; when there is less work to be done, workers are discarded until the number of workers more closely matches the amount of work to be done.
This insidious practice stems from the industrial revolution when, for the first time, large groups of workers were paid by the hour. And to this day, workers carry the cost of ‘saving’ the organization from financial ruin.
No wonder debates on the minimum hourly rate for workers still raises tempers on both sides of the divide.
I’m james@nonsenseatwork.com
Copyright: 2007 James Henry McIntosh
James can be heard on Public Radio, 88.9 FM WCVE, Richmond VA.
Monday - 7:19am and Saturday - 8:19am
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