LABR 1F99 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Stephen Jay Gould, Unfree Labour, Wage Labour
27 Sep 2016
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The economy: democracy, inequality, social justice, & decent work. Plus, core concepts of: democracy, inequality, social justice. Interdisciplinary field of study distinguished by its focus on work and workers" organization. Emphasis on the role that workers, unions and other social justice movements have played by making workplaces, communities and political and economic life general more democratic, representative, and egalitarian. Concerned with alleviating or eliminating various social oppressions and with creating societies that are more than just egalitarian. Mental or physical labour, can be paid or unpaid. Aristotle: we work to have leisure, on which happiness depends. The carrying out of tasks which enable people to make a living within the social and economic context in which they are located (watson 2003) Work is what we do for a living it"s what we do to survive (gibson-graham et al. Work is productive human activity (stanford: definition for synthesis. Unpaid work e. g. , unpaid care work, volunteer work.
