ANTH 1120 Study Guide - Final Guide: Canadian Union Of Public Employees, Craftivism, Post-Fordism
9 May 2016
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Globalization: transnational connection; reduced distance and time; flows: neoliberalism: free markets, minimal government interference, economic success for all, wealth gap. Imf & wb: debt financing, interest rates, austerity measures: regulated market: government; tariffs, protect domestic trade, unregulated market: no government and subsidies and international trade. 4: market externalities: hidden costs, environmental/ social/ cultural/ labour issues, subsistence production: farming to feed, little to no surplus. Industrial revolution: 19th century; new manufacturing process, factory production, surplus, colonialism. Precariat: socioeconomic class of workers currently impacted by precarious working conditions, implications. Favela: home of the working class poor; slums within urban areas; everyday emergencies. Everyday resistance: powerless resistance; indirect non confrontational acts. Gentrification: increased poverty values, pushing out of lower income families. Shop-floor culture: factory vs. office culture; manual /oppositional solidarity spatial separation. Investment bank: a bank that buys and sells shares, pivotal in corporate downsizing.
