SOSC 1009 Chapter Notes -John Maynard Keynes, Landfall, Labor Rights

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1009
• Professor: Terry Conlin

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Nov. 21 read: mcbride & shields #19, ellwood #20, cox #21, broad #22. Mcbride & shields #19 p. 201-209: the adoption of keynesianism by most western countries in the post-war world was a response to the deep interwar economic crisis, the challenge of an ideological competitor in the shape of the soviet. Internationally it generated a political crisis as well. (201) Cloward 1982:ix). (202: this required the integration of the working class into the system. (202) Ellwood #20 p. 211-216: cristobal colon, an ambitious young genoese sailor and adventurer, was obsessed with asia- a region about which he knew nothing, apart from unsubstantiated rumors of its colossal wealth. (211) 1: his goal: to find the grand khan of china and the gold which was reportedly there in profusion. (211, centuries later colon would become familiar to familiar to millions of school children as christopher. Columbus, the famous discover" of the americas. (211)