LS101 Lecture Notes - Factory Acts, Class Conflict
15 Dec 2013
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Natural laws of capitalism: exploitation, private property, profit, commodities, exchange, value, labour. The establishment of the legally fixed working day was so contentious. Law and its relation to capitalism is more complex than we think. Factory collapse in bangladesh april 24, 2013 (refer to learn for video) Shows that building/working is unsafe yet people still go to work = in order to feed family. Shows there is an aspect of free choice but also other duties (free choice to starve ourselves, but some things we just have to do) Article talks about an increase in minimum wage: claims. Why the establishment of the legally fixed working day was so contentious. Even with factory acts, shortcuts taken: pay less for same hours worked, work more hours for same pay, encroach on break time (time is money) Judicial farces (court systems where people were tried to go through process to meet needs of the people)
