ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Nationstates, Wage Labour, Franz Boas
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Labour of love: work is the socially constructed concept that certain forms of individual productive labour hold value, work is usually compensated on a socially agreed scale of value within an economic system. What kind of principles govern the division of labour: group diferentiation. Location: levels of specialization vary according to economic system. In hunting and gathering societies almost everyone knows how to produce, use, and collect the necessary material goods. In industrial society, however, jobs are highly specialized rarely do we know how to do someone else"s job in our complex society . Barter and trade: redistribution: transfer of goods and services between centralized site of collection and individuals (often associated with socialism; the welfare state ) Everyone gets the same access to resources, regardless of what they can provide. State collects money from taxes and other ways and.
