POLS 3900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Effective Demand, Deindustrialization, Maquiladora

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3900
• Professor: Laam Hae

Document Summary

Pols 3900 local to global: city and nation in the age of globalization. Fordism: a set of industrial and broader societal practices associated with the workplace innovation. Volker shock in 1979-> the third world debt crisis in the early 1980s. A (cid:449)a(cid:448)e of do(cid:449)(cid:374)sizi(cid:374)g(cid:863) pla(cid:374)t (cid:272)losu(cid:396)e a(cid:374)d la(cid:455)offs. Changes into a more toxic form of capitalism. Dispossession of the means of production and subsistence and individuals forced to labour for a wage to survive -> primitive accumulation. "the so-(cid:272)alled p(cid:396)i(cid:373)iti(cid:448)e a(cid:272)(cid:272)u(cid:373)ulatio(cid:374) is (cid:374)othi(cid:374)g else tha(cid:374) the historical process of divorcing the producer from the means of production" (marx, k. from das kapital) (cid:862)f(cid:396)ee(cid:863) to sell la(cid:271)ou(cid:396) a(cid:374)d (cid:373)o(cid:448)i(cid:374)g to the (cid:862)(cid:449)age(cid:863) s(cid:455)ste(cid:373) Neoliberalism as a mechanism to reinstitute capitalist disciplinary mechanisms. The 1960s radicalism as a problem to be fixed. (possibilities of) unemployment as a disciplinary mechanism: (cid:862)risi(cid:374)g u(cid:374)e(cid:373)plo(cid:455)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:449)as a (cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:455) desi(cid:396)a(cid:271)le (cid:449)a(cid:455) of (cid:396)edu(cid:272)i(cid:374)g the st(cid:396)e(cid:374)gth of the (cid:449)o(cid:396)ki(cid:374)g (cid:272)lass (cid:863)