Describe working conditions and the American labor movement in the early days of capitalist urbanization
social sciences
Description
URBST 101
Modes of life
Capitalism
Regimes of accumulation
Industrialization
Industrial capitalism
Fordist capitalism
Enclosures
Working class
Capitalist class
Describe working conditions and the American labor movement in the early days of
capitalist urbanization.
2 ways for capital to control labor movement –
pre-1935 brute force;
post-1935=Fordism
(how did each of these strategies work? What was different about them?)
Fordism
Mass production
Mass consumption
Built-in obsolescence
Perceived obsolescence
How do the pictures below from Life Magazine in 1950 help us understand Fordism,
and the changes it brought to working class lives?
