POLI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Precariat, Immorality, Shared Experience
8 Apr 2017
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First meaning of slum, is a "racket" or "criminal trade" In 1830"s the meaning shifted to mean . Poor people lived in slums instead of practicing them. Described poor areas where the scum of society, the criminal and incorrigible, resided and exulted in their squalor and moral bankruptcy. Saying people want to live there and they"re asking to live there. Way to say we owe people in slums nothing because they "aren"t like society" Mike davis suggests replacing the word slums with urban precariat. A social and economic class of people formed by a shared experience of deprivation and uncertainty created by the precarious and insecure conditions under which they live. Merges proletariat (working class who must sell their labour in order to survive) and precarious 85% of urban residents of the developing word occupy property illegally, with no security of tenure or right to live in their homes.
