SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Factory System, Feudalism, Bourgeoisie
Document Summary
Historical transformations: capitalist development labour, and women"s work. 1, historical and comparative approach: shows how work organization changes over time and place: demonstrate how capitalist industrialization was gendered and racialized, theoretical perspectives: interpret trends and patterns, and their affect on different groups. Capitalist production system: relationships between individuals in the system. Capitalist industrialization: small number of people own and control the process of creating goods and services and the majority of people work for them for a wage. Pre-capitalist economy: wage-labour rare idea of selling one"s labor work for a wage. Wealth fueled the growth of industrial capitalism - allowed for the accumulation of wealth needed to invest in industrial technology. Encouraging exports, more money flow helped the country move into the next phase: cottage industry, factory system. Independent artisans and peasants became wage workers. Issues related to race and racism: race: socially constructed, rather than biological, institutional racism: systemic, embedded in institutions and society.
