LABR 1F99 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Stephen Jay Gould, Unfree Labour, Living Wage

• School: Brock University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABR 1F99
• Professor: Simon Black

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The economy: democracy, inequality, social justice, & decent work. I(cid:374)te(cid:396)dis(cid:272)ipli(cid:374)a(cid:396)y field of study disti(cid:374)guished (cid:271)y its fo(cid:272)us o(cid:374) (cid:449)o(cid:396)k a(cid:374)d (cid:449)o(cid:396)ke(cid:396)s" o(cid:396)ga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374) 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: (cid:862)(cid:449)e (cid:449)o(cid:396)k to ha(cid:448)e leisu(cid:396)e, o(cid:374) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h happi(cid:374)ess depe(cid:374)ds. (cid:863) 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 (cid:449)hat (cid:449)e do to su(cid:396)(cid:448)i(cid:448)e (gibson-graham et al. Work is productive human activity (stanford: definition for synthesis. Unpaid work e. g. , unpaid care work, volunteer work. Unfree labour, political and legal compulsion e. g. , slavery.