SOC220H1 Lecture Notes - Child Care, United States House Committee On Oversight And Government Reform
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In pre capitalist societies, few workers were proper commodities in the sense that their survival was contingent on the sale of labour: as markets became universal and hegemonic the welfare of individuals came to depend entirely on the cash nexus", stripping society of the institutional layers that guaranteed social reproduction outside of labour contracts meant that people were themselves commodified, summarize: the class structure changed labour was now the predominant commodity, capitalism shifted human needs from institutionally provided, to market driven family, church, etc, decommodification the extent to which individuals and families can afford an acceptable standard of living independently of market participation. Decommodification occurs when a service is rendered as a matter of right, and when a person can maintain a livelihood without reliance on the market: how policies differ cross national differences, all welfare states are different, this is because they approach policy in a different way, cross national differences.
