The Good Job
"One theme that I found
especially intriguing in the Mokyr, Vickers, and Ziebarth argument is how some
of our social attitudes about what constitutes a "good job" have
nearly gone full circle in the last couple of centuries. Back at the time of
the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th and into the 19th century, it was
common to hear arguments that the shift from farms, artisans, and home
production into factories involved a reduction in the quality of work. But in
recent decades, a shift away from factories and back toward decentralized production
is sometimes viewed as a decline in the quality of work, too.
That was from the timeless Timothy Taylor. And this:
"There is clearly a kind of rosy-eyed nostalgia at work about the qualities of jobs of the past. Many of us tend to focus on a relatively small number of past jobs, not the jobs that most people did most of the time. In addition, we focus on a few characteristics of those jobs, not the way the jobs were actually experienced by workers of that time."
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