SOCI 3660 Lecture 4: October 4
17 Dec 2016
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-Aboriginal communities based on economic norms
-European Conquest: development of Canada over time, including development in trade (fur
trade)
-contemporary realities of Aboriginal persons
Family Lives, Industrialization: late 1700s to mid-1800s:
-in Canada in particular, as well as European nations, society experienced a transformation in
how people worked and lived together (France)
-generally speaking, when we look at the processes of urbanization, migration, and
industrialization, the family economy was transformed to family wage economy
-the paid and unpaid experience of the family changed
-scholarship of feminists: family lives were largely organized according to a family of economy
-what we experience today is a family wage economy
-society’s transformation from feudalism to capitalism
-before we had industrial society in the 1900s, the association of craftspeople and artisans
transformed with industrialization
-in the family economy, all the members of a household worked together in order to produce
and consume goods
-they made their own clothing
-there was a system of how members of family would work together in order to consume what
was needed to survive
-in the family economy, these households could be thought of as extended households
(inclusion of servants and not merely kin members)
-in essence, this changed with industrialization
-larger context for England and France
-Canada also experienced these changes
-**Canada: there wasn’t this sophisticated guild system that we witnessed in Europe..this pre-
industrial society was an agrarian economy, agricultural-based economy, such as farming,
producing and owning land, maintaining crops, etc..this all occurred in the early 19th century in
Canada (1800s)
-industrialization occurred differently in Canada than in England and France
-that being said, we can observe that similarly, in Canada, the family was the primary unit of
production and consumption in pre-industrial society (we see the family economy and that
productive work of all members in a household enabled people to survive)
-the family economy characterized the pre-industrial Canada, as well as England and France
-with industrialization, large-scale, high-volume commercial agriculture developed, as well as
the growth of shops and factories
-these broader changes that textured family lives
-in Canada: 2.4 million factories in 1851 and 5.4 million in 1901
-when people worked in factories, they brought income to their household
-there was a shift: no longer was production and consumption tied to the household itself,
people moved outside of the household to earn income elsewhere
-thus, work and family life became increasingly separate
-scholars attempted to understand how family life changed
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Document Summary
European conquest: development of canada over time, including development in trade (fur trade) In canada in particular, as well as european nations, society experienced a transformation in how people worked and lived together (france) Generally speaking, when we look at the processes of urbanization, migration, and industrialization, the family economy was transformed to family wage economy. The paid and unpaid experience of the family changed. Scholarship of feminists: family lives were largely organized according to a family of economy. What we experience today is a family wage economy. Before we had industrial society in the 1900s, the association of craftspeople and artisans transformed with industrialization. In the family economy, all the members of a household worked together in order to produce and consume goods. There was a system of how members of family would work together in order to consume what was needed to survive.
