SOC 420 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Petite Bourgeoisie, Wage Labour, Social Class
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What are the social relations that produce such inequalities. For example the professor is a female and she e(cid:454)presses herself as a fe(cid:373)ale, she"s a c(cid:455)st ge(cid:374)der fe(cid:373)ale: race relations and racialization deeply embedded in the paid and unpaid work force; who gets the interview! Marx: exploitation: exploitation of wage labourers was result of surplus value, when proceeds from sale of goods produced by wage-labourers far exceed cost of wages, raw materials, etc, surplus value then turned into profits for owners (i. e. , capitalists)* If there is no middle class or no buffer, only rich and people who cant eat, then revolution would happen. In context of service economy emotion management and self-governance (flight attendants, retail, wait tables, bartending: everyday labour: clock in, clock out, results: loss of creativity. Occupations, social class, and inequality in canada: most prominent occupational shift over 20th century was decline in agricultural occupations, also decline (albeit less) in other natural resource-based occupations (e. g. , forestry, fishing, mining)
