SOSC 2000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Union Busting, Neoliberalism, North American Free Trade Agreement

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 2000
• Professor: Annette Bickford

Document Summary

As/sosc 2000 6. 0: interdisciplinary approaches to social science. Topic: water and strategic-structural racism - perspectives from socio-legal studies, and public policy. Readings: d. reed, framing note: the social dimensions of water. 2) michael mascarenhas, Key terms: neoliberal capitalism, systematic vs individual racism, social dimensions of water. Water as a right or commodity; deregulation, privatization, trickle-down economics, the public good, individualism, discourses of responsibilization, market rule, free trade, structural racism, social services. The main points of neo-liberalism include: the rule of the market. Greater openness to international trade and investment, as in nafta. Union busting and eliminating workers" rights promise of trickle-down economics doesn"t deliver: cutting public expenditure for social services like education and health care. Reducing the safety net, maintenance of roads, bridges, water supply -- again in the name of reducing government"s role. Policing, and government subsidies and tax benefits for business remains: deregulation.