SOC341H5 Lecture Notes - Precarious Work, Industrial Unionism
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Continuity through change: studying and limiting precarious employment. Unhealthy, insecure work with few benefits or entitlements and low pay. Restructuring: flexibility, at the industrial and the firm level, at a break with the past, you change the structure, a break at the post world war 2 period, there was not flexibility before that. This restructuring point vosko says is about global competition, china and india, etc. Ex. use of immigrant labour to construct the railway. Hiring women in part time, seasonal, temporary, because their primary focus was on the family. Came to be associated with certain outcomes: benefits, statuatory, insurance, full time, permanent. Focus on organizing skill and unskilled workers in same union. Growth and spread to more groups of workers. Growing mismatch for most people of labour laws and reality of peoples lives, which means more and more people are in precarious states. Social location (gender, age, race, and how they intersect)
