Please Note:

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Please Note

• These slides are meant to help students think
  about the material. They are not meant to replace
  reading the material or taking notes. Using
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  information could harm your ability to understand
  the content of this class.

• Please turn off cell phones, MP3 players and
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Introduction

• 1) What is Work?
• 2) Note how are definitions tend to
• Deny most of human history.
• Deny unpaid work in this economy
• Limit our imagination of whats possible

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Introduction

• 3) Work in this economy is organized money.
• Structure (formal rules and laws that organize
  how people interact)
• Culture (ideologies and informal interactions
  that convey values, ideas and beliefs)
• How does this limit our imagination about whats
  possible?
• Worker as Symbolic Analyst

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Introduction 3 themes of Class

• 4) 3 themes of class
• A) Theme 1 Work is Socially Constructed
• What goods and services are produced.
• Who creates the goods and services
• Tchamabuli of New Guinea Russia, children
• Way people interact to create these goods
• Cooperation vs competition

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Introduction 3 themes of Class

• B) Theme 2
• Over come moral dichotomies.
• How do we let our moral dichotomies influence
  information?

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Introduction 3 themes of Class

• C) Theme 3 Reflect on Contradictions
• Progress and Stagnation occur from
  contradictions.
• Examples..schools, democracy, etc.