SOC227H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Blue-Collar Worker, Creative Class, Deindustrialization

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29 Sep 2016
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Creative economies: knowledge and information are tools and materials for what really drives growth in a postindustrial age- creativity, creative class accounts for 1/3 of workers, top is a super creative. Scientists, engineers, professors, etc: 2nd later is creative professionals. Possess high levels of human capital and education, and work in fianc , law, business: service class. Deindustrialization: refers to declining employment due to factory closures or relocation, typically in once-prominent manufacturing industries: steel, auto motives, textiles, clothing, chemicals, and plastics. Sunset industries: have failed to adapt quickly to shifting consumer demands. Factories have been sold off, shut down, or relocated to areas such as mexico, or. China, or other developing nations where labor is cheap and employment rights and environmental standards are lax. Globalization refers to four interrelated changes: economic changes. & standards and the greatly increase mobility of capital & of transitional corporations: ideological changes.

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