[SOC 606] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (12 pages long!)
Document Summary
Defining work and families: marx"s reserve army of. The industrial revolution is getting off the ground in europe in 1790-1865. He looks at the change of the economic arrangement shapes the cultural, legally and politically. Capitalism is looked at through eat or be eaten. No regulation of the wide gap of poverty and rich. The working class and poor class gets screwed over because of this . George weston who owns loblaws, had people use chalk to replace flour in order to make bread. The poor couldn"t eat better bread and were reduced to eat stuff with poison in it. Marx is looking at the fact there was no regulation, health and safety. Marx"s says this is going to get to point til the masses have nothing to lose and they will rise up against the rich people. They will have a social and communist revolution.
