SOC 605 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Industrial Revolution, Glass Ceiling, Escalator
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Sociology lecture notes november 3rd: paid and unpaid work. Early frontier families, farming/artesenal/craftsman families all worked from home, male and female; line between men and women"s work were blurred, fluid boundaries, not highly distinct. When fathers and sons had to leave the farm to find other forms of work, the wives and daughters were left to do both their domestic labor as well as their work, very capable. Industrial revolution changed this, separated spheres as you had to leave home to sell labor for wage and women became associated with the domestic labor within the home and breadwinner role for men. Natural and innate roles for men and women, men worked for money while women did domestic labor which was not recognized anymore. Society where labor = what you are paid to do, therefore women"s work was invisible, magically performed as it was always expected to be done but never recognized. In 60s and 70s popular culture reinforces this; ex.
