SOC 501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: High School High, Blue-Collar Worker, Primary Sector Of The Economy
14 Dec 2015
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Canada is rich in recourses: forestry, mining, fishing, farming. But in 19/20th century it changed: new machinery/ equipment enabled workers to log more efficiently, mine under ground and farm longer holding faster. Primary industry work: 4 trends in 19th century. Physical discomfort and heath problems: trends. Import labour: future prospects, male dominance, craftsmanship. One worker: apprentice traditions, highly skilled, job characteristics. Demand for inexpensive, temporary and flexible workers. Manufactory and machining work: jobs product of industrial revolution, machinery and technology. Labour is cheaper and evades high taxes and laws: job characteristics. Can help raise the low paying jobs: trends. Vulnerable to job loss, wage erosion (cid:1) (cid:1) Manufacturing work transformed largely: restructuring, technological change, globalization, many jobs moving out of country. Skilled craft workers are in a better position in resisting change. Competition with firms: risk of shutting down. Limited job security, wages, autonomy chapter 12.
