SOCI 1002 Lecture Notes - Equal Opportunity, Speedup, For Marx
30 Apr 2012
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Lecture 5: work, consumption, and poverty in global capitalism. Definition: activity involving mental/physical effort done in order to achieve a result; a task or tasks to be undertaken. Work occupies a central role in our lives. Work remains central to our existence: it"s necessary for survival of most people. Work is a social product: the way in which work is presently organized is not inevitable. People seek meaning in their work: quality, not quantity, central to our identity. The social institution in which people carry out the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Factory system of production facilitated capitalist production, shaping the way people worked and lived: movement of work from homes and workshops to factories, time discipline, more specialized division of labour, departure of men from homes and families. World"s dominant economic system; two distinctive features: private ownership of property, competition in pursuit of profit.
