Industrielle Einfacharbeit – Stabilität und Perspektiven / Low-skilled industrial work – stability and perspektives

Arbeit ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Ittermann ◽  
Jörg Abel ◽  
Werner Dostal
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Work ◽  
Work Stability

AbstractDer Beitrag thematisiert die Strukturen und Entwicklungsdynamiken industrieller Einfacharbeit und vertritt entgegen anderslautender Diagnosen die These, dass diese kein Auslaufmodell in der Wissensgesellschaft ist. Auf der Basis empirischer Befunde wird gezeigt, dass von einem stabilen Sockel der Einfacharbeit auszugehen ist und zahlreiche Kernzonen dafür in der Industrie identifiziert werden können. Das Beispiel der Ernährungsindustrie verdeutlicht, dass einfache, gering qualifizierte Tätigkeiten ein zentrales Moment in der Produktion und Verpackung von Lebensmitteln sind. Zwar sind die Arbeitsanforderungen auf einem niedrigen Niveau, dennoch ergeben sich verschiedene arbeitsorganisatorische Muster von mehr oder weniger angereicherter Einfacharbeit.

“Scrap-Heap Storiesˮ: Oral Narratives of Labour and Loss in Scottish Mining and Manufacturing

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (2-2018) ◽  
pp. 8-21
Author(s):  
Arthur McIvor
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Oral Narratives ◽  
Industrial Work ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
Plant Closures ◽  
The Impact

This article is an attempt to comprehend deindustrialisation and the impact of plant downsizing and closures in Scotland since the 1970s through listening to the voices of workers and reflecting on their ways of telling, whilst making some observations on how an oral history methodology can add to our understanding. It draws upon a rich bounty of oral history projects and collections undertaken in Scotland over recent decades. The lush description and often intense articulated emotion help us as academic “outsidersˮ to better understand how lives were profoundly affected by plant closures, getting us beyond statistical body counts and overly sentimentalised and nostalgic representations of industrial work to more nuanced understandings of the meanings and impacts of job loss. In recalling their lived experience of plant run-downs and closures, narrators are informing and interpreting; projecting a sense of self in the process and drawing meaning from their working lives. My argument here is that we need to listen attentively and learn from those who bore witness and try to make sense of these diverse, different and sometimes contradictory stories. We should take cognisance of silences and transgressing voices as well as dominant, hegemonic narratives if we are to deepen the conversation and understand the complex but profound impacts that deindustrialisation had on traditional working-class communities in Scotland, as well as elsewhere.

Digital DC Speed Control System in Mine Hoist Application

2011 ◽  
Vol 219-220 ◽  
pp. 1017-1021
Author(s):  
Rui He ◽  
Yun Ping Ge
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Closed Loop ◽  
Speed Control ◽  
Closed Loop System ◽  
Pi Regulator ◽  
Control Precision ◽  
Speed Control System ◽  
Digital Trigger ◽  
Mine Hoist ◽  
Work Stability

Mine hoist shoulder important transport tasks. Through the analysis of the main circuit of mine hoist, this paper studies out ASCS digital DC speed control system whose core is microprocessor and whose hardware part constitutes digital trigger and double closed loop system. The software part not only achieves the system's digital PI regulator, logic switching, digital trigger phase shift, pulse channel selection and pulse width setting, but also realizes the systematic detection, monitoring, fault diagnosis, which improves the control precision and work stability of the system.

scholarly journals Development and Implementation of ‘Just Right’ Physical Behavior in Industrial Work Based on the Goldilocks Work Principle—A Feasibility Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 4707
Author(s):  
Anders Fritz Lerche ◽  
Svend Erik Mathiassen ◽  
Charlotte Lund Rasmussen ◽  
Leon Straker ◽  
Karen Søgaard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Level ◽  
Feasibility Study ◽  
Industrial Workers ◽  
Physical Behavior ◽  
Productive Work ◽  
Industrial Work ◽  
Industrial Setting ◽  
Health And Fitness ◽  
Just Right

The Goldilocks Work Principle expresses that productive work should be redesigned to comprise physical behaviors of different intensities in a composition promoting workers’ health and fitness. This study is the first to assess the feasibility of redesigning work in an industrial setting according to the Goldilocks Work Principle. We recruited workers (n = 20) from a brewery in Denmark, and we conducted a participatory 16-week intervention including a workshop and two consultations. The workshop aimed to support the workers in modifying their work, while the consultations assisted the eventual implementation. Feasibility was evaluated as per three aspects: (1) developing modifications of work, (2) implementing these modifications, and (3) changing physical behavior and self-reported fatigue, pain and energy. The three aspects were addressed through records completed by the workers, measurements of workers’ physical behavior and intensity during ‘control’ workdays (i.e., usual work) and ‘intervention’ workdays (i.e., modified work), and self-reported fatigue, pain and energy level following both types of workday. Five modifications to work were developed, and three of these five modifications were implemented. To some extent, physical behavior and intensity changed as intended during ‘intervention’ workdays compared to ‘control’ workdays. Workers were also less fatigued, had less pain, and had more energy after ‘intervention’ workdays. These results suggest that it is feasible to develop and implement modified work based on the Goldilocks Work Principle among industrial workers. However, we also identified several barriers to the implementation of such modifications.

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