ANTHRO 2A Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Scientific Management, Proletarianization, Spirit Possession
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2020 program government program to have malaysia completely industrialized by 2020 by inviting foreign guest and companies to build infrastructure. (specifically the micro-electronic companies) They hire women from the country side (single young women for microchips: micro-chip factories are hiring single young malaysian village women. Taylorism- came up with scientific principles on how to arrange a factory, what tasks should be done, how many workers it has made it factories more efficient. The result of this is that you don"t need skilled labor anymore: labor in the periphery. They will work for cheap wages: opportunities for corporations. They build companies in other countries where they can pay workers lower: trend. Past core, they imported raw materials and cash crops and exported manufactured goods. Periphery exported raw materials and cash crops and imported manufactured goods. Now routinized manufacturing done more in semi-periphery and periphery. Special salience of multi-national corporations (operating across many nations)
