GGR208H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Demographic Transition, Feudalism, Family Reunification
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Feudal system: mostly in europe, kings and queens, backward society (level of production: agriculture -low level of product development). Process people were displaced (like indigenous people) through the government. Sell labor to earn money: people did live longer and became more productive. Masses still lived in the poverty and only a few were benefiting. 1800-1900: great migration from europe to the us, urbanization- increase spaces where people live. Population just increases in a short period of time, the number is doubled. Economic perspective: most of the growth takes place in the least developed countries. Increased in life expectancy decline mortality or social and cultural issues. Post-war: euphoria, better world united nations: harder to make a life now, children become a burden economically, fewer kids because they could not afford to take care of children. Japan and: us: impossible to live in ny to even rent a small room.
