SOC379H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Neoliberalism, Police Science
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In order to drive a taxi, you need to apply to the municipality for a taxi plate/medallion, which sets conditions for which you have to follow. The city only allows a certain number of licenses cab drivers have to lease their licenses. The debate of uber coming from the taxi perspective is that they"re coming from an informal market. Law and social change: law and social change are reciprocal, changing social conditions give rise to new laws or new laws give rise to changing social conditions. Neoliberalism: free market individualism (the market is a self-regulating entity, without state interference) Industrial work: central banks changed their policies to increase lending, making it easier for people to take out loans, so that personal power would contribute to the country"s gep levels. Penetration of the state into new social realms: increasing rates of prison inmates, wages and compensation stagnating, more people in temporary work, neoliberalism aims to change working conditions.
