LABR 1F99 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Unfree Labour, Working Class Culture, Social Class

• School: Brock University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABR 1F99
• Professor: Simon Black

Document Summary

Kanys west kim kardasion --> family --> work. Social reproduction workers cared for, caring for the next generation of workers. Exploitation in the workplace workers devalued as items increase in # and $ Value produced does not equal pay leads to theft/ small revenge. Labour studies interdisciplinary field focused on work and workers organizations. Work determines: time spent, largely our place in society, self-image, economic status. Defines our nature and economy in many ways. Places emphasis on role that workers, unions, and social justice movements have played in making workplaces and communities more democratic. Role of public policy in labour markets, training, education. Working class culture and communities: music, poetry, film; resistance. 1960-1970: students responding to universities that do not address their needs: race, gender, $, sexuality. Insurrection of subjugated knowledge : wgst, native, labour, etc. Knowledge from below : people previously excluded from learning (philosophers, authors, etc. )