POLS 4185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Unfree Labour, Effective Demand, Mixed Economy
19 Jun 2018
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Carcerality and precarity – exam question
Explosion of service sector brought women into market
Students are in precarity, part time job, no benefits and minimum wage – no way
to go up
Neglect in work place, increasingly needed for social reproduction
Women’s role in society and carcerality – women are in progressing in society
but are really not, not recognized in work place even though this assist the
market
Housekeeping
Capitalism provides free labour/market
Working class under feudalism can go to market and freely choose who they want
to work for
Capitalism is based upon on unfree labour production
Keynesian Welfare State
Government intervention in and control of the economy: the mixed economy
Industrialization, modernization and full employment
Encouraging consumer demand (credit policies”) – democratization of
consumption
Investment in social overhead such as education, health and welfare programs –
increased social wage
Cooperating with the organized labour
Fordism
A set of industrial and broader societal practices associate with the workplace
innovations, such as division of labour, specialization, standardization
Mass production for mass consumption, made possible by a combination of lower
prices and higher wages paid for by higher productivity (Economies of scale)
Lifelong employment
Relatively closed economy (auto centric states)
Male vs. female, white vs. non-white workers
Suburbanization
The combination of Fordist and Keynesian economies at the urban scale – the
mobilization of effective demand through the total restructuring of space
Coalition of special interests
Conditions
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Document Summary
Explosion of service sector brought women into market. Students are in precarity, part time job, no benefits and minimum wage no way to go up. Neglect in work place, increasingly needed for social reproduction. Women"s role in society and carcerality women are in progressing in society but are really not, not recognized in work place even though this assist the market. Working class under feudalism can go to market and freely choose who they want to work for. Capitalism is based upon on unfree labour production. Government intervention in and control of the economy: the mixed economy. Encouraging consumer demand (credit policies ) democratization of consumption. Investment in social overhead such as education, health and welfare programs increased social wage. A set of industrial and broader societal practices associate with the workplace innovations, such as division of labour, specialization, standardization.
