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1
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What is class

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Class refers to a group of persons sharing a common social and or/ economic status

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Pre-Capitalist Society

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Status is determined by birth
Lords owned a large area of land in exchange for labour

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Primitive Accumulation

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Using land and people to accumulate capital through colonisation and exportation

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Industrial Revolution

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Started mid 18th century
Technological revolution of production
Development of factory systems

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5
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Bourgeois Capitalist Class

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Owner of means of production
Employer
Makes profits from production process

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Proletariat (Working Class)

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Sells labour power in return for a wage
Poor living and working conditions
Produces for the capitalist class

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7
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20th Century

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Middle class
Introduction of welfare states
Education and skilled professions
Expansion of finance through credit and finance

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Marx - Middle Man

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Class struggle
Class consciousness
Surplus Value

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Webber - Winner

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Class, status , party
Consumption
Social status
Market position
Higher Life chances

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10
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Systematic Colonisation

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Treaty of Waitangi
Introduction of an English class system

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Early 19th Century (NZ)

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Growth of workers (class consciousness)
Increase of unions for better employment opportunities

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Great Depression

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Free social institutions including healthcare, education and housing
Rising unemployment

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1980s

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Rogernomics
Neoliberal transformation from a state-regulated economy to a free-market economy

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1991

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Mother of all budgets
Olibterating the welfare state in New Zealand, cutting down benefits for healthcare and family needs, making people pay

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1980-2000

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Large growths of inequality
Lots of unemployment
Maori and Pasifkia overrepresented
Mass numbers of poverty

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16
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Rentier Capitalism

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An economic system in which small groups of wealth people (rentiers) derive their income from owning scarce asset

17
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“The Asset Economy”

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Inequality today is driven by the ability to buy and own assets that appreciate in value at a faster rate than inflation of wages

18
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Rise of a “global working class”

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Manufacturing has increasily been outsourced from Global North to Global South

19
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Neoliberalism

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The promotion of a free market economy, in which the government does not intervene in economic relations

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