LABRST 1C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Informal Sector, Wage Labour, New Imperialism

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABRST 1C03
• Professor: Katherine Natovski

Document Summary

Workers are created by pushing people off the farmland. When people are displaced, it means they are put in another position in needs to survive. This means informal work, unpaid labour, **rise of wage labour** Capitalism developed in england, technology was developed and people needed to work to survive. Was a process from 16th and 17th century where peasants were kicked off their land. Many different strategies for displacements (kicked out): Kicked off the common land and work for the nobles. Critical to the survival of the poor. Land owners and rich farmers were pushing off people on their lands. Modern day examples removal of rent control, housing crisis in usa (2009) Making these people desperate to work b/c they want to work. Various forms of displacements force, laws, etc. Law and criminalization are a part of the exploitation. Made it a criminal not to work. In great britain, many factories began to operate.