CAS350H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Affective Labor, Fordism, Post-Capitalism
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Lucacs: labor games: youth, work, and politics in east asia. China: state owned enterprises provided lifetime employment. Mao adopted the soviet model of economic development, based on the coleltivization of agricultural and industrial production. Deng ziaoping began reforming the economy in 1978, following japan and south korea in adopting an export-driven model for growth, relying on foreign direct investment. Japan and south korea: secure high economic growth rates while maintaining high levels of social equality. Neoliberal states exploit their young as a source of flexible and inexpensive labor, capitalizing on their youth as a source of energy to identify new opportunities for value etraction. Labor subjectivity in the fordist era was the roganization man, whose status was commensurate with his work experience. To contrast, driving force of neoliberal eocnomies is youth. Fordist era rewarded seniority, neoliberal economies embrace youthfulness and inexperience as key organizational principles. Corporations operate as ever expanding networks of subcontractors, youth are flexible.
