Topics Main Content Important Concepts
Harvey’s Spatial Fix – physical capital as fixed (which devalues overtime, becomes saturated with more inputs), solution
to crises (geographical/market expansion/expand proletariat), capitalism always needs another hit because solutions
are temporary
Capital and
Week 1 – Accumulation of capital requires bourgeoisie to dispossess wage labourers so that they have to sell their labour
accumulation of capital
Theoretical (dispossess land, capital)
Spatial Fix
Foundations: Capital
Primitive accumulation
Configurations, Marx’s Primitive accumulation: forcible separation of labourer from control over the means of production,
and dispossession
Social Relations and transforming means of subsistence into capital (labour, land, money), middle-class producers to become wage-
Spatial Fixes labourers.
Products of PA: property (privatization), profit-making (concentration of capital) and proletariat (removing self-
subsistence means)
Dispossession: laws, force, deprivation, persuasion
Imperialism, colonialism and capitalism
Self-regulating market: profit-maximizing, supply and demand determine price, no intervention, no trade barriers,
creation of money subject to automatic mechanism (gold standard)
Competitive labour market, international free trade and gold standard – all or nothing to work
Polanyi
Laissez-faire and free
Week 3 – Fictitious commodities: land, labour and market (originally not produced to be sold in market)
market
Making
Fictitious commodities
Commodities, Embeddedness and double movement: society embedded in markets (society – expectations, politics, religion, social
Counter movement and
Making Movements relations, values shape the markets). Markets will try to disembed itself from society but society will counter to re-
embeddedness
embed (economic liberalism vs. social protection)
Laissez-faire enforced by the state (market did not come into being but had the help of tariffs, subsidies etc.) laissez-
faire was planned, planning was not.
Fordism: breaking down labour process into its components, giving workers fixed tasks. Boost in productivity.
Separation of management, conception, control and execution (de-skilling and hierarchical social relations). Mass
production and assembly lines.
Week 4 – $5, 8 hour day. The workers becoming consumers too (they should be able to afford)
Fordism and
Fordism- For people to buy into Fordism: moral coercion, consumerism, state action, intervention, ideals of family and the
Keynesianism,
Keynesianism: A perfect working person (mode of social regulation – socialization and ideal lifestyles)
Role of state
Golden Era? Mass production + mass consumption
Supported by open markets, new markets after wars but varying effects across globe because of different labour
relations, monetary and fiscal policy, welfare and public investment strategies.
Harvey’s Spatial Fix – physical capital as fixed (which devalues overtime, becomes saturated with more inputs), solution
to crises (geographical/market expansion/expand proletariat), capitalism always needs another hit because solutions
are temporary
Capital and
Week 1 – Accumulation of capital requires bourgeoisie to dispossess wage labourers so that they have to sell their labour
accumulation of capital
Theoretical (dispossess land, capital)
Spatial Fix
Foundations: Capital
Primitive accumulation
Configurations, Marx’s Primitive accumulation: forcible separation of labourer from control over the means of production,
and dispossession
Social Relations and transforming means of subsistence into capital (labour, land, money), middle-class producers to become wage-
Spatial Fixes labourers.
Products of PA: property (privatization), profit-making (concentration of capital) and proletariat (removing self-
subsistence means)
Dispossession: laws, force, deprivation, persuasion
Imperialism, colonialism and capitalism
Self-regulating market: profit-maximizing, supply and demand determine price, no intervention, no trade barriers,
creation of money subject to automatic mechanism (gold standard)
Competitive labour market, international free trade and gold standard – all or nothing to work
Polanyi
Laissez-faire and free
Week 3 – Fictitious commodities: land, labour and market (originally not produced to be sold in market)
market
Making
Fictitious commodities
Commodities, Embeddedness and double movement: society embedded in markets (society – expectations, politics, religion, social
Counter movement and
Making Movements relations, values shape the markets). Markets will try to disembed itself from society but society will counter to re-
embeddedness
embed (economic liberalism vs. social protection)
Laissez-faire enforced by the state (market did not come into being but had the help of tariffs, subsidies etc.) laissez-
faire was planned, planning was not.
Fordism: breaking down labour process into its components, giving workers fixed tasks. Boost in productivity.
Separation of management, conception, control and execution (de-skilling and hierarchical social relations). Mass
production and assembly lines.
Week 4 – $5, 8 hour day. The workers becoming consumers too (they should be able to afford)
Fordism and
Fordism- For people to buy into Fordism: moral coercion, consumerism, state action, intervention, ideals of family and the
Keynesianism,
Keynesianism: A perfect working person (mode of social regulation – socialization and ideal lifestyles)
Role of state
Golden Era? Mass production + mass consumption
Supported by open markets, new markets after wars but varying effects across globe because of different labour
relations, monetary and fiscal policy, welfare and public investment strategies.
