Comment on Is your job boring? This 1960s auto worker says his job was killing him

The_Jit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• zen@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Oh thank you also! It is really eye-opening. I have some additional historical context, that I learned in Business school.

  Under Fordism, factory work was broken into tiny, repetitive tasks. Instead of one worker building most of a car, one might just bolt on the bumper all day. It made production faster and cheaper, but also made workers’ jobs monotonous and stripped of skill or creativity. It was then easy for each role to be replaced with automation, as technology improved.

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  • PetteriPano@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m currently working in data automation.

    My job is to take away as much of the monotonous work as possible from skilled workers. In many fields it would probably mean the end of many jobs. For s start-up with much more growth to do, it means that we can hit our goals while still hiring even more skilled workers.

    It’s a weird age for my line of work.

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