SOCY 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Petite Bourgeoisie, The Communist Manifesto, Deskilling

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 336
• Professor: William Andrew Silver

Document Summary

Buying power increases and therefore so does consumption: charles babbage: less skill deserves less pay = lower labour costs and higher profits, specialization versus deskilling karl marx - deskilling - alienation and (he hoped) - class conflict. Karl marx (1818 1883: conflict perspective" bourgeoisie and workers are in constant conflict. Higher class owns everything and workers only have their labour to sell: history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles (communist. Manifesto: class position own capital vs. selling labour, private property, stage theory. Monday, january 16, 2017: mode of production: means of production (tech, material, capital) & social relations of production (groups within society). Capitalist between workers and owners: class structure based on ownership: bourgeoisie, proletariat, petite bourgeoisie, division of labour: surplus value, exploitation, loss of worker control, and alienation. Worker as commodity - the worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and size.