ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Pastoralism, Invisible Hand, Middle Ages
24/03/2016
SCL Lecture 9
Economics: The Base of Culture, The Means and Relations of Production
Reading:
Lecture Themes:
• Industrial economy and superstructure
• Post-industrial economy and superstructure
• The post olo ad ueual deelopet
***each economic system correlates with a different kind of superstructure
Economic Systems:
• Foraging
• Pastoralism
• Horticulture
• (intensive) agriculture
• Industrialism
• Post-Industrialism
Industrial Revolution Economic Base:
• Between 1760 (England) to 1840 (in many places beyond)
Ex. steam engine, trains
• In the post-colony the industrial revolution never occurred, it is just happening now
didt aie eehee i Euope at the sae tie
Ex. Austrian Empire was much later than England
• Provides a very technologically oriented means of production
• Means of production include machines and factories
• Relations of production
Manufacturing
Wage labour
• Relation to employer—you work and you get paid
• In the middle ages people did not work for money, not hourly wage determined by
contract (employers had obligations to employees beyond paying by hour)
• Loyalty is not highly priced in wage labour economy
Relations of Production Class System:
• upad oilit" is ideall e possile, though i patie a still e diffiult
• idustials/iestos/akes the high bourgeoisie o apitalists oigiated ail
among the townsfolk of the agricultural period
• the working class originated among former peasants, and was the largest class in
industrial society (as opposed to port-industrial)
• working-class organizations (unions, socialism)
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