SOC227H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Knowledge Economy, Masculinity, Where We Are
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Today"s issues (news: canada"s income gap is growing between young and old. Terms to know: technology, deterministic theory, relations of production, surplus value, alienation, managed capitalism, corporatism, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism, national masculinity values. Reading notes (what to focus on: pgs. Note that production may be global but labour is not global, labour is local, we don"t ship mexican workers up to. Canada to make cars, we ship work to where the workers are. We have local labour markets, national labour markets, and international labour markets. Ex: if you get a law degree, you have a provincial labour market. If you want to build houses, you have to be where construction is, they hire locally. Labour markets tend to have jurisdictional boundaries: the fourth section to look at is rethinking industrialization. Note the consequences: increasing inequality (poor vs. well-off, the sixth and seventh section --- we can skim it no questions on test.
