SOCIOL 2R03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Concentrated Poverty, Scotiabank, Visible Minority
8 May 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Brief read aloud from the city of joy by dominique lapierr (1985) The space of africaville: creating, regulating and remembering the urban slum" pages 282-295 by jennifer j. nelson. Caterpillar london ontario feb 2012 (500 jobs) Heinz leamington ontario nov 2013 (740 jobs) Ccl industries toronto, ontario nov 2013 (170 jobs) Novartis mississauga, ontario nov 2013 (300 jobs) Bicks pickles dunville, ontario nov 2011 (150 jobs) Ford assembly line st. thomas ontario (over 1,100 workers) London, ontario kellog plant august 2014 (500 jobs) By the end of 2013 ontario lost 33,000 manufacturing jobs. Individuals that move away from industrial jobs into the service sector are caught in low-wage, precarious jobs (un-standard employment) Scotia bank cut off a majority of their middle-management jobs (this impacts women who are largely found in these sectors) It"s not that these companies are doing poorly and have to leave, its that they feel they can profit more by going elsewhere.
