SOC231H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Structural Analysis, Social Progress, Group Marriage
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Many responses (ideology and agency) to class-conflict, strikes, recessions and depressions. Capitalists: lobbying reduction of taxes, automation, assembly-line production to squeeze more labour etc. Fordism: high pay and benefits for workers in the past; present day japan, Globalization via outsourcing: cheaper labour = global capitalism unemployment mass-incarceration, jail. the need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere the bourgeoisie has through its exploitation of the world market given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country (1848) (david harvey rsa animate) The reality, relevance and consequences of class for social inequality. Power, domination and access to resources the culture of class entitlement, privilege etc. Social mobility upward but also down. Denial of the reality of class the self-made individual; rags to riches stories. Us: 400: 1 (ceo vs. worker) japan 25:1 can: 150:1.
