SOC 606 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Industrial Revolution, Piece Work, Menopause

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 606
• Professor: Kelly Train

Document Summary

Defining work + family: what is work, marx"s reserve army of labour, taylorism, fordism, dual labour market theory, patriarchy, domestic labour, organizational work, consumption work, emotional work, post-fordism. Deskilling a job: make each task, it"s own job. Strip job down- not multi-faceted as it is: pay them less than the original job salary, clerks left for factory work, women got brought into jobs, 2. Standardized the occupation: management controls the work process, all employees become replaceable. Fordism factory work prior to 1900s: not doing job on factory line, ex. Patriarchy: system of male domination, power, and privilege, gender division of labour, creates social conditions whereby men are associated with public sphere (work, women fall under private sphere. Ideology: women only work for extra money, even though they work to support themselves: not simply an ideology but a system, shapes social conditions, ideology and a structure. Domestic/household labour chores involved in doing domestic labour: ex.