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Teaching about EXPLOITATION and CLASS STRUGGLE
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Johnson, Brett. 2010. “Teaching about EXPLOITATION and CLASS STRUGGLE”. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, April. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/teaching-about-exploitation-and-class-struggle.

Abstract

This lecture begins with a description of historical materialism (without naming it) and is full
of examples of exploitation (recent and historical). I have abandoned a Marxist definition of exploitation (extraction of surplus value) and used a more common definition of exploitation. It ends with explaining class interests and class conflict. I also...

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Subject Area(s):
Marxist Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
College 400

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