GEOG 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: John Maynard Keynes, Stopwatch, Unit
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School teached peope to live by the clock and learn discipline. Gasslight :: allowed labor force to work at night. "new form of family"" / "radical change in the position of women"" == whats behind capitalism is the idea behind a structured family. How people must behave evolve with capitalism ( sort of patriarchal. Capitalism improves social condition of women as it develops ( but more complex than simply that ) Democratizing the workplace was a core role played by the chartists. They were inspired by the ideals of the french revolution. Marx and engels were germans part of the new classes. They captured and were able to articulate what was happening at that time. But they were part of a trend, they were in debate with other scholars. They were part of a group of people asking their kind of question about the governing system which was growing, bourgeoisie lords ( capitalism ).