SOCB47H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Wage Theft, Living Wage, Contract
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Hours; unions; benefits; labour protection; risk-sharing (strauss & fudge); bilateral contract (between two individuals) Relates to idea of loyalty: the two parties will be loyal to each other in the long- term; employee is loyal so the employer has to provide benefits and protection. Women, children and racialized people had to work. Non-standard work: flexible hours; no benefits; unable to unionize; outsource; contract work. They don"t have the same benefits but still live comfortably. Women are assumed to take care of children at home increase of them in the workplace leads to an increase in precarious work affected by precarious working conditions. All these process and shifts in labour market led to the two key points: rise in precarious working conditions and intermediation. Degree of certainty of continuing employment: having to work by contract is close to having a long-term job, which affects people"s abilities to make plans and make ends meet.
