LABRST 4H03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Precarious Work, Neoliberalism, World Trade Organization
24 Nov 2016
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Lecture 3; migration and the relationship between the. Profit goes up by paying people less and by having more people in the global reserve army of labour. The more precarious it is the more dispossession it accumulates. He talks about the classical marxist idea of accumulation -- the idea of being kicked off land and have to sell labour. He believes that this is currently happening in the north. Through neoliberal policies (privatizing, deregulated) more people in the north are losing. Less access to public services, having to pay for school. We are constantly being dispossessed and we have to accept crappier positions. Because there is an unevenness of power b/t countries. Huge subsidies and when they open these markets developing countries cannot compete thus they are kicked out of the competition and land. Movement of labour isn"t free -- restrictions on immigration. When we look at the classic idea of trade -- it"s a trade (cid:271)/t t(cid:449)o part(cid:374)ers.
