SOCIOL 1C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Visible Minority
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Law
• Contract positions rather than permanent positions + 3years of law school followed by
one year of articling
• Unpaid articling positions
• Supply/demand issue.
• Lawyers fight for people.
Medicine + Insufficient residency spots for medical school graduates- suicide of
medical school
graduate Robert Chu
• Unemployment/underemployment for medical specialities- often those that
require
hospital privileges.
• Supply/Demand problem: enrolments doubled, hospitals can't afford to hire
more
physicians, older physicians have these hospitals positions.
• Hospital requires doctors to have "office hours"
October 17th
Human Capitalist Theory
> education and work experience predict income and position + Doesn't predict
incomes of immigrants (especially new immigrants), visible minorities,
black men, young workers, (education-jobs gap).
Unionization
Most countries have witnessed a decline in unionization since the 1970's-80's
• Decline in unionization reflects non-standard employment
Part-time, temporary, seasonal workers harder to organize and more reluctant to go
on strike - Decline in unionization linked to globalization
• Union density refers to the number of unionized workers in the country compared to
non-unionized workers in the country - Union density has declined
• Unionization and gender differences - Decline in unionization in private sector,
not public sector.
