GEOG 2400 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - City, Capitalism, Social Class
20 Nov 2018
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Largest urban agglomerations are in developing countries, cities expanding beyond their infrastructure and resources. Feudalism: new classes of people, the belief that some are better that others, ex. Forced appropriation of surplus from labourers: all working class people exploited, rate of profit reflects extent of exploitation. Industrial revolution: movement from pastoral to manufacturing base societies, enclosure of land, getting peasants off the land and to go to city to work, pauperization of england, demand of cheap labour. Increased in percentage of employment in manufacturing and percentage of urban population: key to city development, tea, bread, sugar: cheap options for food. First time ever, lives and work of people no longer in same place: about the production of surplus, 3 kinds of capital for production, variable capital, constant capital, surplus. Issues with buying local: difficult to get people to buy into the concept, more expensive. Ldcs urbanizing faster than mdc, more people living in worse conditions.
