SOCI 341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Meritocracy, Making Trouble, Root Mean Square
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Us was largely agrarian for a long time. 1800s saw a shift between labor intensive work and capital intensive work. Toward the end of the 20th century the economy began to de-industrialize. Workers were city dwellers with a range of city experiences. Work systems like slavery could not be supported in an industrial environment. Different form of relationship between workers and their bosses. Minorities freer to compete for valued resources mostly with lower class segments of the dominant group. Established members the work force felt threatened by the new in ux of workers (former slaves and immigrants) Some prior to the civil war, most afterwards. Opportunities for african americans expanded signi cantly right after the civil war but ended almost as quickly as it started. Many if not most of the gains were taken away. This extreme difference gave rise to an extreme backlash.
