SOCIOL 2PP3 Chapter 2: Chapter 2 mcdaniel
18 Jan 2019
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Chapter 2: historical perspectives on canadian families mcdaniel. Indigenous peoples and settlers: contact and conflict: difference in gender roles, divergent views on relationship of family to its community, and of both to property. For a long time married women could not own property, sign a contract, had no rights under law. Industrial revolution moved work of men outside household, family life became private. The history of immigration in relation to the family: women are unable to seek help aggravated by the fact that immigrant women already face a lack of resources with the loss of family and friends from the homeland. Impoverished lives were made even harder by canadian immigration laws. In the 1980s immigrant labour was sought to compensate for the large population of aging baby boomers in the native born population. Immigration policies sometimes classify women as dependent and men as independent.
