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Notes on video lecture:
19th Century Changing Concepts of Labor
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on January 28, 2016 (go to class or lectures)
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commerce, labor, surplus, stabilize, economy, interdependence, republicanism, slavery, destiny, technological, principles, archaic, vote, scientific, revolution, moorings, manageable, backward, liberties, identities, admired, Russia, monopolies, wage
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middle of 19th century
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world is recovering from the great upheavals of the age of                     
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hadn't put an end to them
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had changed the cultural                  of the world's systems
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new aspects are coming into being
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new regimes
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new                     
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new discourses of science and technology
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societies faced the challenge on how to                    this new order
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finding a way to channel the rights that people felt they enjoyed in this new order in a way that made these rights                     
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create nations
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the political theaters in which people would exercise their newfound                   
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1. franchise
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the right to         
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the right to choose your representative
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channeled these rights into new and older,                institutions
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relocate people energies away from streets and aggregating into mobs
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like those that stormed the Bastille in Paris
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into political parties
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voting places
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new languages of                           
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2. technological changes
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the effects of the first industrial revolution
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new organizations of production and circulation
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this generated a new quest to locate                      that would guide the emerging new global order
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the international system
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once the old empires were made less relevant
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applied to the role of                 
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away from the idea that companies chartered by states would enjoy privileges and                     
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away from an older model of protectionism and mercantilism
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to the idea of free trade
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all individuals now enjoyed a right to trade
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not just within internal markets but external markets
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the rise of the assault on the idea of coerced           
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a violation of fundamental economic laws
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coerced labor was an affront to the moral principles of human beings
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for Darwin,                was a violation of natural laws
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slavery and all coerced labor system were seen as emblems of an old, archaic economic model
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Karl Marx
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articulate exponent of the move from coerced forms of labor to free forms of labor
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thought of himself as a                      economist
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transition to free labor was one of the fundamental transformations of the age
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coerced labor was a system attributed to                  regimes
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capitalism was               
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was bound to spread
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would pervade the entire world
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societies around the world gradually transform themselves into economies of profit and accumulation
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free labor an important aspect
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freedom for businesses to accumulate
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free from intrusions from state and church
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freedom to trade across borders
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freedom to hire label
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the language of freedom was becoming important to the concept of the                itself
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Marx calls this exploitation
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while he believes capitalism is destiny, he also thinks it is doomed
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has an idea of a revolution
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used in 1917 in             
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the owners of capital had an incentive to augment the productivity of workers
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invested in making the worker more productive
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the capitalist would earmark a share of his                into the investment of new technologies
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there was something new about this system
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rising productivities
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reinvestment in                            systems
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intrinsically dynamic
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a powerful system
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while dynamic, it was also unstable
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more and more workers get pulled into the system
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pulled away from their habitats where they produced for subsistence, what they needed for households
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now they sold their labor for         
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now you get a wage
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but you don't make your own food, so you go to
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once you dismantle this self-sufficiency, the market place becomes a zone of                               
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these workers become more and more dependent on the market place
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dependence produces vulnerabilities
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Karl Marx                Charles Darwin
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sent him a copy of Das Kapital
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Darwin never read it
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the new principles need to be scientific
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evolution
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capitalism

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managable ⇒ manageable
priveleges ⇒ privileges
mercantalism ⇒ mercantilism
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The Second Industrial Revolution
The Closing of the American Frontier
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Post-WWI European Peace and Global Colonial Upheaval
1929 Economic Collapse
Changes in Capitalism between the Wars
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