PHIL 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Wage Slavery, Industrial Revolution, Proletariat
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Owning machines after industrial revolution becomes even more important than owning the land. New working class (proletariat): free as a working class could be, They are not like slaves because they can go where they would like to go. They do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e to (cid:449)ork for a(cid:374)yo(cid:374)e (cid:894)(cid:374)o o(cid:374)e is holdi(cid:374)g a gu(cid:374) to their head(cid:895) Joke (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause they do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e to (cid:449)ork for so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e (cid:271)y la(cid:449), (cid:271)ut they ha(cid:448)e to work for someone because they have to eat. Commodity: something for sale, worker sells its labor. Wage slavery: the work you do is worth more than you are paid. Workers sell themselves as slaves day by day. Owners of the means of production can buy the product for less than it is worth because the law protects them. Boung. was an interesting ruling class because they were in competition with each other. All capitalists are in competition with each other.
