Loss of job and how it's caused
Tech vs workers
Production costs
Robots
High initial costs:
Robots require big amount of initial investment for purchase, installation, and maintenance. However, once the robot works the cost per day can be lower than manual work.
Reduced operating costs:
Robots do not require regular salaries, vacations, or benefits like human workers, and they can work without interruptions. Additionally, their able to work in rely bad working conditions and there is less possibility of accidents which can lead to additional costs.
Humans:
Fixed costs: People are paid for their work which needs regular salaries. Workers may also require vacations, sick leave and other benefits raising overall the costs.
Variable costs: Workers have productivity based on what role they cover and motivation which can affect the productivity of a workday. Since most humans can be less productive the price for a daily rate is higher.
Speed and productivity
Robots: Robots can consistently and without interruptions, they can work 24/7 which increases the productivity and reduces the costs and reduces the time of production. This leads to making more money reducing all costs, but the machines must get plugged or put in charge
Humans: Although people are highly productive, they are limited by stress, fatigue, rest, and physical capacity. A human worker cannot produce as quickly and consistently as a machine could work.
Product Quality and Mistakes
ROBOT:
Robots cannot make mistakes and the only mistakes that can happen are software ones. For the rest robots do not make mistakes and keep doing the same action many times leading to a better industry.
HUMAN:
Humans if tired can make mistakes and can make the company go bankrupt and the worker and many others could get fired because of that and then it would cause unemployment and it would be bad for the family and hard to find a new job.
Flexibility and Innovation
ROBOT:
Robots are efficient in repeating tasks, but they are less efficient to do tasks that require creativity or some tasks that need quick modifications.
HUMAN: People are more adaptable and can quickly adapt to new processes. They are capable to do problem-solving and at making innovations, improving the efficiency and the product quality.
Impact on benefits
ROBOT:
If robots are ready to perform correctly, they can increase the founds, reducing the operating costs, improving the productivity, and improving product quality. However immediate capital may be lower due to the high starting investment.
HUMAN:
While paying the wages of human needs higher long-term costs, they can still generate capitals with innovations. Also, in some cases the human element could be a big advantage.
In summary:
PROFIT FROM A PRODUCT MADE BY A ROBOT:
Robot is generally more efficient, and the possibility of errors are less, and costs are less due to higher productivity and lower operating costs.
PROFIT FROM A PRODUCT MADE BY HUMAN:
While more expensive in terms of salaries and less productivity, people can add value on creativity and flexibility.
The type of capitals depends on available resources and specific needs: robots may be better in large scale and high precision production while human can be preferable in more creative and flexible jobs.
MOBBING AT WORK
Examples of mobbing at work
Continuing criticism someone's work on purpose.
Spreading bad rumours about someone.
Not including them in meetings.
Excluding someone from social events.
What is mobbing?
It is a planned attempt to try to make someone go away my humiliating them, annoying them or simply mistreat them mentally for a certain reason.
Why do they do it?
Mobbing can happen for several reasons, and the reasons behind it can be influenced by the individual and the workplace culture and routines.
Here are some of the most known examples of mobbing:
Power and control: Some individuals start using mobbing to confirm dominance. They might feel scared of the persons skills, position in work, or for that it is more likely to have some advantages and to hurt their feeling and make them understand that they have more power.
Jealousy and Envy: If someone is seen better in the job, more successful or well-liked colleagues might feel jealous and use mobbing to make the person feel uncomfortable.
Blaming: Mobbing may happen when a person is not correctly blamed for a problem or a failure in the workplace. The group might attack that person to avoid problems with the actual issue.
Insecurity: People that are insecure of the work they do may fall into mobbing to make another colleague that is more successful feel bad and make them feel better.
Personal conflict: Mobbing may occur because personal problems like disagreements with some colleagues and other colleagues may take parts and make groups and after someone may use mobbing to the other groups.
CONNECTION
Mobbing is connected to labour issues because mobbing is a type of bullying that happens in work, and it affects how people work.
The line of inquiry connected is: How working conditions can affect the way people try their best.
Great depression.
The great depression began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. It was the longest and most severe economic depression ever experienced by the Western world, although it originated in the United States, the Great Depression caused drastic declines in the industrial world. 12,830,000 people were unemployed in 1933. Its social and cultural effects were no less surprising especially in the United States, where the Great Depression represented the most difficult adversity faced by Americans since the Civil War in 1861.
The great depression was caused by bank failures and panics, and the collapse of the money supply. With World War II coming millions of men and women got a well-payed job in the military and in other categories.
One the wealthiest during the great depression was Howard Hughes because he was in power of selling airplanes for WW II and he was already rich, and he became even more in the Great Depression.
The depression was caused by prices getting higher because of the war and to go buy bread you had to have a suitcase full of money because money had no value.
Overproduction and Underconsumption were other reasons because if there are mass productions of a thing it stops getting value and reduces to cost nothing.
Mass unemployment was the result of it, leaving people starving and without a job but when WW II came many millions of people fought in the military and in the AirForce so they could have some money.
The reason why people lost their jobs was because of the banks that did not work, and everybody lost their funds in a bank also the managers, so they had to shut down companies which led to millions of people losing their jobs. Some banks were forced to go bankrupt because of the very small amount of money contained in the building.
In the history of the United States, Black Tuesday is the day that fully represents the panic of 1929 and is associated with the Great Depression, one of the most severe economic crises in the history of the industrialized world. For some, the stock market crash was a symptom of an economy already in full contraction by the fall of 1929, rather than its cause, while for others, the financial crisis was the triggering cause of the depression.