POLS 1090 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mass Production, Monocropping, Us Organization
5 Apr 2016
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Advanced capitalist countries new institutional configuration of the state. Focused on the three pillars keynesisam, welfare state and collective bargaining. 1945-1970-> ^ growth of gdp (gross domestic product) -> total output of goods + services. Processes -> mass production was matched by the growth of mass consumption. Industry -> automobiles -> time + motion studies -> fredrick taylor -> taylorism. Range of industries -> slaughtering + meat packing -> electrical appliances massive increase in productivity. Productivity -> = output per hours worked. /\ in mass consumption -> unionization -> unions in male -> domination of employment (automobile, steel, rubber manufacturing) Increase in wages that are part of increase in collective bargaining agreements leads to a way of systematically increasing wages. Workers in the advanced economies higher standard of consumption decline in support for socialist parties -> de-radicalization of more left wing movement.
