GGR328H1- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 23 pages long!)

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Led to standardization of goods and workers. Unpaid work another form of precarious work. Looking at what workers are doing to improve quality of jobs alternative types of work. Labour geography is about understanding the micro economy of the space. Labour geography is nicely portrayed in paintings by diego rivera. Painted at height of fordism and taylorism: the geography of labour, phase focused on capitalist development, how capital is reshaping geography, industry and owners shape economic landscapes, ex. Labour is a commodity in this system: it is exchanged for money (a wage) As a commodity, labour has a use value: a practical function (ability to do something: ability to do work at a specific skill level for specific period of time, has exchange value: a price wage. Supply and demand labour is allocated depending on the market. If there were no mediators for the market relationships of commodities, there would be complete disaster.