ANTHRO 2A Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: World-Systems Theory, Proletarianization, Hantu Demon
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Intro to spirits of resistance : malaysia: a. i. Wants to industrialize, to move up out of the third world status. Wants to isolate from the big powers/companies because can"t compete with them. Invite foreign investment, bring as much of it as you can. a. v. 2020 program: program to become fully industrialized by the year 2020. Malaysia, building factories and power plants in the country. Cut back taxes, cut worker protection laws and stuff like that making it appealing to come to the country. Now there have been robot arms doing stuff instead of the man labor. a. i. You have to be trained to work specific mechanisms. So the company has a commitment for the workers, training the workers for hours and hours. If a worker wanted to leave, then the company would want to pay them higher to keep them in the company because of all the hard work was committed to the worker. a. i. 1.
