SOCI 110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Family Values, Profit Margin
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The construction and anatomy of the working class. The new working class was unlike any other that had existed before. The four characteristics of the new working class: Members were able to move wherever they needed, not tied down by property or family connections. Members were segmented by race, age, and gender. Members were subject to new kinds of discipline and control. Members were militant and often protesting the conditions in which they were placed. New laborers were geographically mobile, moving temporarily or permanently to sources of employment. Some were mobile because they were forced off their land because the products they produced were no longer in demand. The 19th century saw the greatest migration of human beings, they relocated in an effort to sell their labor. Assembly plants in malaysia hire young women and say it is because their work is women"s work because they can concentrate more and have better eyesight.
