ANTHRO 2A Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Marvin Harris, Spritsail, Industrial Revolution
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Japanese factories, malay workers: class and sexual metaphors in. Race, human variation, and the forces of evolution. 3 key marxist concepts: alienation - estrangement from human nature in class-stratified society, labor theory of value. The value of a good comes for the labor the worker puts into it: surplus value. The value that an item has comes form the worker, but the company pays the workers less (far less) than they are worth which generate surplus value = company profit! Workers are striking for better pay, workers want limits to how many hours they work. Charlie chaplin modern time - against henry ford. After wwii, workers in u. s. & western europe were given many more rights & protections. But companies look for new ways to try to make profits. This would lead to companies developing a strategy. Companies began to close factories when labor costs were higher & reopen them where labor was cheaper.
