ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Northeast Megalopolis, Wage Labour, Industrial Revolution

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Max Friesen

Document Summary

Each economic system correlates with a different super structure. Industrial economy and superstructure: economic systems evolve, do not disappear when in contact with new ones, post-industrial economy and superstructure, globalization (and beyond?, the post colony and unequal development. Industrial: economic base: means of production include machines and factories, relations of production, manufacturing, wage labour, unprecedented surpluses, large cities (megalopolis) Capitalism and money: capital: anything one wants that can make them wealthier, money: financial capital , capital organizes society, an impersonal force. In industrial, capitalist society, (almost) all value can be expressed as money. The market: the market - an impersonal, abstract exchange mechanism. Traditional (non-capitalist) value: wampum: made of shells from the atlantic coast, used by indigenous people in northwest america. The class system: agriculturalist society; estates/castes > industrial society: classes, nobility: an estate, brahmins: a caste, upper middle class: a class, classes are more permeable, and more directly based on money rather than family.