Job fragmentation protects employer legitimacy as production coordinator

Evidence

To allow all workers the capacity to deal knowledgeably and powerfully with all parts of the production process both increases their sense of control and autonomy and undercuts the employer’s legitimacy as the coordinator of production. Yet it is this legit­ imacy which maintains his position of financial control and intermediary between direct producers and consumers. Job enlargement and democratic worker control would soon threaten the political stability of the firm. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 749

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Worker skills exceeding their rank threaten the enterprise’s legitimacy — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 893; Fragmented production processes weaken individual accountability for harmful content — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 849

Broader Connections

• Worker skills exceeding their rank threaten the enterprise’s legitimacy #expands (0.75) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 893
• Fragmented production processes weaken individual accountability for harmful content #expands (0.72) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 849