LABRST 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Production Quota, Tves, Wage Theft

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABRST 2G03
• Professor: John Barkans

Document Summary

Labr st 2g03 lecture february 3, 4, &6, 2014. Lecture feb 3 sarah k. sent. Forces of labour by silver, response that the labour movement is dead (the race to the bottom killed off the labour movement), shattered, weakened that it is not a force anymore. Her thesis is that labour movement and the struggles haven"t disappeared, it just has flowed to a more capitalist industry , follow to flow of the labour movement to see what is going on in these countries. Look at china, global factory of the world. How chinese policy was altered and changed to facilitate china becoming the world factory: labour movements in china. China is very authoritarian society/ state dominated society, tight restrictions on workers movements, would not expect much protest or organizing going on, but there is quite a bit. Bangladesh) also developed some large scale capitalist industries as well: big shift in global division in labour.