Discuss Sklair’s Economy, Polity, Culture-Ideology.

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

The bearers of transnational practices within the capitalist global system stand in determinate relationships to all other categories of actors. Groups may be included or excluded from profitable participation in the system. One of the most important historic tasks of capitalist imperialism was to include various previously excluded groups within its realm of influence. This inclusion was, however, partial and differences emerged between the economic, political, and culture-ideology spheres. In the economic sphere, the capitalist global system offers a more or less circumscribed place to the wage-earning majorities in most countries. The workers, the direct producers of goods and services, have occupational choices that are generally free within the range offered by local economic conditions, but they do change over time and place. For example, as capitalist globalization reduced the numbers of manufacturing jobs in most high-wage countries, workers there have been forced to seek jobs in other, often less well-paid and less secure sectors. Throughout the First World, many older workers displaced from traditional industries (like mining and metal industries) were faced with permanent unemployment. The
other side of the coin is that some of the manufacturing jobs lost in relatively high-wage countries have turned up in relatively low-wage countries. This has, undoubtedly, over the last few decades, brought many people from the Third World countryside into urban areas, whether forced off their lands by hunger or predatory landlords, or as willing migrants in search of a better life.