LABRST 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Precarity, Cultural Globalization, Deindustrialization
12 Jan 2017
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Tutorial group b: last names beginning with g-m january 26 group b meeting. Meet with ta 3 times in the term. Must bring 3 discussion questions to the debate that relate to course readings or lectures. Want questions that will facilitate a conversation about the readings. Will do a total of 9 questions in the term, and ensures you are prepared for the tutorials and do readings. Conference prof is organizing: confronting global capital: strengthening labour. Internationalism and transnationalism in canada today october 12-14, /17 (no fee) Breaks it into 3 kinds of globalization. Weber argued that bureaucracy was the model of the rationalization process. Ritzer saw the fast food model as a better model of the rationalization process. Defined as the process of the fast food restaurant are expanding into more and more sections of society. Value efficiency, predictability (things are the same always), calculability (quantity over quality), non-human technology over human technology (taking away the skills of people)
