HIS 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Moral Economy
27 Mar 2015
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The importance of understanding the differences of the past and how they express themselves overtime: we have a difficult time understanding how they express themselves. Basic story: workers go out and mane, torture and kill cats, they think its funny so funny that they make a play about it and they reenact it everyday. Proletariat vs. bourgeois - tensions between master and apprentice (is also economic and personal tension), tension between gender. Feel like they are being ridiculed apprentices feel disrespected by master. Cats are a symbol for sex (gender), women page 99 - attacks on cats is a symbolic attack women and husband is killing the cat it is disrespectful towards the wife. More on the book: chapter is called: the workers revolt. Page 48 the workers meant to ridicule the social and worker order by attacking rats (symbolic)
