WEEK 3: The Rise of Crapitalism (readings) Flashcards
- Capital Goods 2. ____ goods 3. ____ power
- Capital goods (land, machines, factories) 2. Consumer goods 3. labour power (what makes metal into car)
Some people have a “kink for objects”
commodity fetishism (where you only see the object / not the “shadow” and the problems it creates elsewhere)
Why “babies” important in convo about sweat shop labour?
Because women were leaving the home for first time, and not having as many babas.
In Colombia they baptized tofu nuggets.
No they baptized money.
Besides the baptism of money in Colombia, what are the two myths that surfaced around babies in Malaysian sweatshops?
- Pontianak (ghost that has something to do with miscarriages) 2. Tuyul (invisible babies that fly around stealing money from people)
Laborers were created by the Toronto Maple Leafs
*the British economy
Laborers must be able to move to where the work is at =
labor mobility
Migrant labor created …
racial stereotypes
Once the Black Irish were freed, they had a cereal?
No, they became slave owners.
West uses clocks. Other cultures use …
length of prayer / light of sun / seasons
Author contrasts Karl Marx with Penelope Cruise.
*Thomas Malthus
What’s Malthus all about?
Normalizing human suffering and classism as part of nature / fact of life.
the surplus value of labor (6 letters)
profit
How do modern countries encourage global trade?
“labor cost” on goods produced overseas but no tax on value of product
Anthropologist who studied Malaysian sweatshops
Aihwa Ong
