SOCB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Precariat, Precarity, Precarious Work
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Socb30 lecture 4 polanyi and the global age of marketization and. Recap: weber on social class: individuals do not automatically belong to a capitalist. Because there are multiple classes and statuses: rather market interests determine the likelihood that class or a working class people share class situations (e. g. labour market, consumer market, upward mobility) It"s tendencies not shared objectivities that determine your class. What is your job: people in similar class situations may engage in concrete class actions (but such actions are historically variable and contingent) Class actions may look more like closed status groups. Rather than some general idea of the working class identity. The making of the english working class (about freeborn. Englishman not dependents: not an abstract class identity racial exclusion) White canada (primarily about anglo settler colonialism and: concerted movement of the whites to exclude chinese, contemporary example: professions, the non-recognition of and races other than whites foreign credentials, the lack of canadian experience .
