SOCI 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Soyou, Talcott Parsons
4 Aug 2019
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They are part of the proletariat, but they are the disadvantaged part of the proletariat. The electronic handouts: national agenda/youth homelessness, caste system, and quintiles. The reserve army of labour discussed today will not be on the midterm. The last class ends the material on the midterm. Reserve army of labour people still work (the lumpenproletariat do not). According to marx, there are all kinds of contradictions built into capitalism. Capitalism works because there will always be this reserve group (the reserve army of labour). These people are disadvantaged because they do not work all the time. There will always be proletariat that are always going to be unemployed for most of the year, until production increases. Because there are so many of them, the employer doesn"t have to pay you/pay you well. Marx would say that unemployment is built into capitalism. According to marx, the reserve army of labour has two main functions:
