GGRB13H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Voluntary Sector, Social Stratification, Batch Production
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Lecture #7: work, class, and changing econmic spaces. Intro to geography of work and labor geography. We can look at: geographers of workers, their lives, labor migration, geographies of companies and where they locate and what policies influence that. Social reproduction is governed by national regulations: child care, food guidelines. Scales of mobility and how have define migration: rural areas to urban areas. Voluntary work is important factor of the labour market. Other people have argued that work is an activity that takes place in different. 50% of americans are involved in formal and informal volunteer work spheres. The connections between the sectors: the level of effort, unpaid internships, they have different kinds of benefits. Form of social stratification linked to income, wealth, employment and other social characteristics presumed to be connected to these, has both cultural and economic components. Capitalism is inherently expansionary: needs new markets (labour and product markets) High governed by set of rules and regulations.
