SOC366H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Sexual Differentiation, Sweatshop, Devaluation
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Work and gender soc366 jan 18,2012 chapter 1. Work: activities that produce a good or a servce. Work to include activities that produce goods and services for one"s own use or in exchange for pay or support. Forced work: performed under compulsion and provides little or no pay. Market work: paid or unpaid work which people perform for themselves and others. Women and children throughout the world, particularly recent immigrants and racial minorities are especially vulnerable and are brought into us to work in the sex industry and in the domestic and cleaning industries. Sweatshop conditions tend to associate with the developing world can be found in the us important form of nonmarket work in modern societies is domestic work- work that people do for themselves and members of their household. Distinction between market and nonmarket work is a by-product of industrialization. History: people did not see work as separate from the rest of their lives.
