PSY BEH 104S Chapter Notes - Chapter 20: Labour Power, Day Labor, Coolie
14 Dec 2016
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Reading a: excerpt from the world labor market. Migration can be understood as labor power : the movement of persons, coerced or voluntary, as resources for capitalism"s quest for profits. Racism and sexism are tools of capitalism. Every nation has been drawn to the world market, although some with much resistance and unfairness. Women play an important role in the labor market, although they were minorities: their reproductive function and its control have been the subject of particular attention and have attracted various measures during every stage of market development. World market of labor power: first phase. Encompassed the emergence and development of the world market for labor power under colonialism: second phase. Began with industrialization and resulted in the direct incorporation into the world market on the capitalist metropole. Present day labor migration and the brain drain, like the slavery and the coolie systems and the fascist system of forced labor: all methods of importing living labor.
