SOCI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Starbucks, Alternative Media, Winnipeg General Strike
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Buyers want to pay as little as possible. Sellers want to obtain as much as possible. Competitive context where buyers and sellers are competing among themselves. Labour brought & sold as a commodity. Safety of workplace awful (nb: life was not pleasant prior to factories; beware romanticizing an idyllic past) Collective action to combat low wages and poor working conditions. Progress - better society (e. g. morality, shelter, leisure) Human rights - more inclusionary society (women) Divisions within working class (e. g. aristocracy of labour) False consciousness - workers will eventually see the light. Post ww1 - few good jobs, poor conditions. Doctors - not unionized but have collective agreement. Many university professors - including ubc (unionized) A majority of canadian workers are covered by collective agreements. Collective action (social change) as the result of disruption of traditional practices. Collective action (social change) as the result of resource mobilization and political opportunity.
