URST 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Paul Fussell, Labour Power, New Zealand Am Class Electric Multiple Unit
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Us and canada --> class is a touchy subject. Paul fussell --> people don"t want to talk about social class, but it is. In a world of inequality, it is a subject we cannot avoid. There are rankings in the world that identifies social inequality (e. g. the. Another way to consider this is that one hundred millionth of the world"s population owns more wealth than 3 billion people. Karl marx --> concerned with how development processes (e. g. modern urbanism/modern industrialization) can change the way society is organized. Focused on how 19th century processes changed society. Especially on agriculture + productivity --> believed that industrialization changed the relationship between these two. However, people still have intimate and close ties to land. That is because labor could be moved around and no longer be tied to the land (as agriculture did) Industrialization could only take off if it was free to move.
