SOCIOL 2SS3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Scientific Management, Calvinism, Capital Accumulation
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Marx"s forms of exploitation in today"s work setting: Some jobs having no proper breaks, working overtime, low pay for the type of job, internships not paying the student only having their labour exchanged for experience that will hopefully get them a job. We need to explain what social force motivates the accumulation of wealth. Central argument: development of modern capitalism is tied to ideas, values, and culture, more generally (ex. religion) and legitimization of power. Protestant (western) countries were ahead of other religious countries in terms of the development of capitalism. For that we are dealing only with western european and american capitalism is obvious from the way in which the problem was stated. India, babylon, in the classic world and in the middle ages. But in all these cases, as we shall see, this particular ethos was lacking . (p. 17) [assumes that] ideas originate as a reflection of economic situations.
