Women's Studies 2240F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Labour Power, Productive Forces, Industrial Revolution
19 Nov 2018
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Women"s studies 2240f foundation of feminist thought. Why don"t the workers rise up: through ideology: cultural structures we inhabit unconsciously, common sense , the way things are. If things just are then there is no point in thinking critically about them (nature, custom, axiom, society: eg. it is natural" for women to be in the house making babies. If you wanted to do a job, you would work as an apprentice (today you have to go to school, no matter what you want to do: reproduction of the relations of production. In school, children learn the rules of good behaviour, the attitude that should be observed by every agent in the division of labour, according to the job he is. In classic marxist theory, the state is a repressive apparatus. Althusser sees two ways of controlling the proletariat: repressive state apparatus (rsa, not very effective because it involves violence.
