SOCB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nationstates, Labor Rights, Universal Rule
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Socb30 lecture 5 the nation state and citizenship regimes . Key dynamic of societal transformation: utopian ideal of the self- regulating market. No human or state intervention, to allow market to balance itself through buying and selling, because intervention would interfere with prosperity. Markets were run by traditions, morals, etc. until transformation into market society. Three key fictitious commodities: land, labour, and money: not really commodities, but because they are treated as such, destructive forces will ensue. Social classes could form to protect society from the market. Double movement: from impossible society (utopian ideal gone wrong) to the good society. Society, not the market, would make and enforce the rules (land, labour, and money) Key mechanism: institutional regulation (not self- regulation) Marshall: expansion of social rights to the working-class (labour rights, welfare protections, public education, public health care, etc. ) Think of a concrete example to support your argument
