ANT204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Wage Labour, Ethnocentrism, Houseplant
Document Summary
Five key ideas about progress and development. Surely nature is natural : class activity: my houseplant, video: second nature. World bank report paints a picture of a people without history, untouched by modern economic development. Oxford outlines a rich history with successful economics and agriculture. They ignore what they cannot change: wage labour not agriculture is dominant, not resource poor (natural and ahistorical) but resource exploited (politics and history, wage labour exploitation in south african mines. Working hard and in unsafe conditions, not being paid what they deserve: for this reason, agricultural concerns tend to move centre stage and lesotho is portrayed as a nation of farmers , not wage labourers. At the same time, issues such as structural unemployment, influx control, low wages, political subjugation by south. Africa, parasitic bureaucratic elites, and so on, simply disappear. Cannot entertain these factors as the cause of the problem because they can"t actually do anything about them.
