SOC 371 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Parental Leave, Blackboard, Sexual Differentiation
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Chapter 1 of women and men at work: work and gender. We spend most of our lives either preparing for work, working, or resting from work. Women and children throughout the world, especially recent immigrants and racial minorities are especially vulnerable to forced work (i. e sweatshops) An important form of nonmarket work in modern societies is domestic work (work that people do for themselves and members of their household) The distinction between market and nonmarket work is a by-product of industrialization. For most of history, people did not see work as separate from the rest of their lives: the average person consumed what they produced, and few people were paid for their labor. Only with industrialization and the development of capitalism was work equated with paid activity. As more workers were drawn into paid jobs, people increasingly treated paid work as the only real work ; the unpaid work that people did in their own homes became devalued or invisible.
