POL 4275 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Profit Margin
Document Summary
Capitalism is contradictory and unstable & kathi weeks. Capitalism draws resources from outside itself in order to survive, but it also destroys those resources (thereby destroying the conditions for its own future reproduction) Constant drive to capitalize on others - limits resources. Capitalism, in order to function, needs non-capitalized workers - parasitic and destroys conditions for reproduction. Unpaid labor, shadow world, women, racialized labor. Title - not labor because marxists only include waged workers under heading of. Work more general - waged and unwaged. Weeks - how work has expanded and proliferated for less and less value.