LABRST 1C03 Lecture Notes - Barter, Deskilling
5 Mar 2013
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Work is a central human activity involving the shaping of raw material to transform the conditions of our own existence: ex. Work that produces commodities (services, production) for exchange rather than for use: you are exchanging your labour to produce the commodity for the company. This type of work is not for wages but for your own benefit: ex. Cleaning your kitchen in order to cook your next meal. Allows is to engage in productive labour. Gendered: majority of reproductive labour in our society is primarily done by women. In essence women are working 2 jobs and are only getting paid for one (their own career and the work done at home) Enlightenment thinkers believed: work is a fundamental part of the human experience. Work is the means of self- expression and self- development: but under capitalism there is an estrangement or separation of the worker from the spirit of their labour. No relationship with the finished object of production.
