SOCC30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Deindustrialization, Universal Health Care, Parental Leave
Document Summary
Agenda recap and critique of marx: capitalist mode of production reorganized society into 2 distinct and unequal classes. Class consciousness; shared class location leads to recognition of shared interests as group. Class solidarity; forge sense of we against them. Communist revolutions (russia, china, cuba) occurring primarily in agrarian (not industrial) societies. Industrial workers; class compromise, mass consumption and blue collar middle class. Envisioning the american dream red white and blue. Male; protect: military/ cops cold war is about to happen females; home maker. Women started to enter workforce so men can be at war and protect the country capitalists are innovating: cars, allowing people to be free. Negotiated by trade unions and representative political parties. Ford: we is not the working class but the company, decentralized and is firm-based. State as terrain of struggle beyond marx; executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.
