SOC 371 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Peanut Butter, Housekeeping, Domestica
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Week 1: the sociology of work and the importance of work to identities. Our job is to constantly re-create the stage setting in which women can act out. The answer is that she lives with her grown daughter, who also works, plus the fact that she"s worked here the last two years, during which her pay hasshot up to . 75. The point is our time is so cheap they don"t care if we waste it, . I have been discovering a great truth about low-wage work and probably a lot of medium-wage work, too that nothing happens, or rather the same thing always happens, which amounts, day after day, to nothing. What you don"t necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you"re actually selling is your life. Office ladies: power, gender, and work in japanese companies- yuko ogasawara. Women graduating from university were penalized for their overquali cation.
