SOC227H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dog Sled, Putting-Out System, Making Money
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Forced: performed under coercion for little or no pay: us antebellum period slaves in 4; dogsled in 7. Market work: what people doing similar work can sell their labour for in a. Work can be (cid:498)free market(cid:499) workers in 9: hospital cleaner in 1, the farmer in 3, the office workers in 5, the auto. Non-market work: nonpaid work performed for oneself or others: man mopping at home in 2, students in 6. The fully automated assembly line is not conventionally understood as work: the robots are involved in a value generating activity for others and it"s in a workplace. But because the activity carried out by inanimate: not (cid:498)forced(cid:499): roots have no free will to choose, protest or be creative, machines it is, no lo. Example: india has strong caste systems where men are only suitable for some things and women are only suitable for other things. They don"t mesh properly together in all things doctors or professionals.
