SOCIOL 1C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Permanent Residency In Canada, Foreign Worker, Toronto Star
31 Jan 2020
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Readings: course pack (sedef artat-koc); global news article) thompson; toronto star article (black): talk about the exploitation and mostly women who work as caregivers. Workers on farms: they keep food prices down. We can"t get enough canadians to do the jobs they do. The west indian domestic scheme (1955): single women 14-40, no independence, work as a domestic working as house keeper, at least grade 8 educations, able to come as landed immigrants. Impact of forced family separation: workers experiencing trauma, Characteristics of quality childcare: want to have a child cave provider that is very interested. Not b/c they just need the 9574$, specific training, more than one worker makes it better care, licensed child care = legislated breaks only one person taking care of children means no break no time to eat. Reasons why the use of foreign domestic workers is problematic: how the treatment of workers themselves, no collective solutions people are on their own, gendered issue.
