Inequality: Marxism
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- Created on: 02-06-22 13:10
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- Inequality: Marxism
- Age
- Gramsci
- People don't realise how the bourgeoise exploit people, as the elderly & youth depend on institutions to gain money, e.g., pensions & 0-hour contracts
- Engels
- Reserve army of labour, 0-hour contracts
- Townsend & Phillipson
- Political economy theory - the elderly are positioned as a burden to the economy
- Gramsci
- Gender
- Engels
- Argued that under capitalism men gained control over women as they wanted to pass on private property in the form of inheritance from one generation to the next
- Benston
- The wife keeps husband in good order to benefit capitalism
- Engels
- Ethnicity
- Cox
- Stressed that 'race' is a human creation. It has its origins in capitalism & colonialism. Also, if racism is developed to justify exploitation, it cannot be developed by those who are exploited.
- Criticism: 'Race blind' - racism may benefit capitalism in the long term, but there is no evidence that it functions exclusively as an ideological apparatus
- Castles & Kosack
- Found that immigrant were concentrated in low-skilled and low-paid manual jobs carried out in poor working conditions
- Criticism: It's a mistake to think all ethnic minorities are disadvantaged e.g., over 5,000 Muslim millionaires in Britain
- Cox
- Social Class
- Class conflict
- Polarisation of social classes, alienation, economic crisis
- False class consciousness
- When the working class realise the nature of their exploitation, they would rise up and overthrow capitalism
- Gramsci
- The ruling class rarely need to use force to exert power because they rule through persuasion
- Braverman
- Many 'middle class' workers have actually been de-skilled e.g. they are now performed by machines or broken down into simple steps for less skilled workers. Employers can pay them less
- Class conflict
- Age
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