PHYSICS 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Buckling, Major Force, Shared Experience
Document Summary
Capitalism had undergone a massive reconstruction in the end of the 20th century: flexibility in management, decentralization of networking of firms internally and with others, empowering of capital and labor. Increasing power of labor movement individualization and diversification of working relationships & incorporation of women under usually discriminatory conditions: deregulation of the markets and reduction of welfare state. Global integration of markets and the rise of asian pacific as new domain of global manufacturing center. Uneven development between dynamic and less developed societies making some irrelevant in the perspective of the system"s logic. Political systems are in a structural crisis of legitimacy, periodically wrecked by scandals, essentially dependent on media coverage and personalized leadership, and increasingly isolated from the citizenry. The uncontrolled, uncertain, and changing environment of social, political, economic and private life religious fundamentalism as the only force for personal security and collective mobilization.
