SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Pension, Collective Bargaining, Carol Huynh

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

Main themes in this presentation: two logics of collective action, social inequality and meritocracy, profile of income inequality in canada, explaining inequality, marx"s class theory, weber"s class, status, and power. Power and the logic of collective action: inputs: Employer: primary organizer of labour force, capital exists as a fluid resource. Employees: union is secondary organizer of labour force, history of worker association, human/labour power inseparable, entire spectrum of needs/wants, can"t reduce fundamental needs, key questions: Employer: costs of demands vs. cost of lockout, willingness to pay. Employees: costs of strike vs. management offer, willingness to pay, willingness to act, dynamics: Employers: fluidity of capital, cost of work stoppage. Employees: cost of accepting offer vs. cost of no income, diverse membership; diverse interests, wants and needs, consensus building via negotiation, mobilization and maintaining a strike. The image of meritocracy: carol huynh, gender equality, individual perseverence, open society, non-racialized society, small town canada, images of gender equality, placing first.