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Instructions: Essays 2 should be no more than 1000 words. Additionally, essays 2 should begin with a brief abstract (this should be no more than 20% of the total essay or 200 words), which summarizes your argument. The length of the abstract is included in the 1000 word limit. Essays should be 12 pt font, single-spaced with one-inch margins. Make sure you cite specific passages and provide page numbers as a reference – you do not need to include a work cited page. You can do this by including a parenthesis after the quote or section you paraphrase example Smith says… (p.12). You can use direct quotes from the text, but you should also try and put the argument into your own words when possible. Please include a word count at the end of each essay.
Essays will be graded on your demonstrated understanding of course concepts, the quality, and depth of your argument, and the clarity and excellence of your writing.
please make sure to devise an argument
please answer all questions on the prompt below in the essay :
prompt:
ESSAY 2: 1000 words max In his chapter on the fictitious commodities –land, labor, and money –Karl Polanyi levels a strong critique against proponents on the natural rise of the self-regulating “free” market. For Polanyi, because land, labor, and money were not produced for sale on the market they do not function like regular commodities. Instead, we must engage in fiction, which is itself the basis of market society. In the chapter we read, Polanyi writes, “the alleged commodity ‘labor power’ cannot be shoved about, used indiscriminately, or even left unused, without affecting also the human individual who happens to be the bearer of this peculiar commodity.”In this essay, I ask that you reinterpret the writings of Gutman, Taylor, and Braverman through the lens of Polanyi and his critique of the fictitious commodity labor.
a. How does Gutman illustrate the problem of turning people into workers? What are some examples? What role does culture play for Gutman? What is the experience that brings his diverse examples together?
b. Taylor, as the originator of Scientific Management, wants to eliminate worker soldiering. What is soldiering? How does he set about doing this?
c. What is Braverman’s critique of Taylor? What does Braverman illustrate is Taylor’s view of the ideal worker? What does he see as the real consequences of Taylorism? In working your way through these questions you may want to consider: how this may confirm Polanyi’s theory of the consequence of fictitious commodification; How and why workers must be constantly made and remade; how Taylorism attempts to strip workers of their subjectivity; and finally, what underpins scientific management –what is its goal?