PSYC 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Commodification, Ambivalence, Meritocracy
14 Apr 2013
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Week 5: children and youth as producers and consumers. Idealized childhood is complicated by processes of production and consumption. There are diverse and culturally specific distinctions between what is considered acceptable and unacceptable work for children. What are some examples that you feel uncomfortable with: childhood outside market relations - review, public/private spheres, innocent childhood, other discourses of childhood. Working can be part of growing: as training Link to becoming: when is work educational and when is it exploitative: as vital contribution vital in single income households. Labour within families - farming is vital in domestic labour. Child as being: exploitation, link to innocence, protection and becoming. Mining must be 18 or older to work underground: legislated provincially -14 is general, by age - 12 is bc/alberta (under 12 in bc with permission) Different ages accepted - 16 is manitoba unless permitted. Need to ensure that you are getting education: conditions, protection of development, agriculture, within un crc.
