GGR313H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Absolute Difference, Isolationism, Post-Structuralism
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Some places gendered as masculine, feminine (her childhood experience) Looking at economic restructuring in england: phases how it was done. First phase of analysis: lots of jobs in london, no jobs in the north of the country. Restructure it; so there are more jobs in the north (where the poor people live: government policy: to put more jobs in northern england. Had no gender analysis (simply numbers of how many jobs were. Weren"t considered real" jobs that they were getting: because they were women"s jobs. Took low wages, weren"t paying as well as manly" jobs. Mining: man"s work (paid well, full-time work) Stuck on separation of men and women. Urban/rural: agricultural land vs. downtown, there is no clear distinction, the rural/urban areas are intimately connected. Urban entity: how you are going to bound a city. One city: something that you can define as isolated, can"t study a city by itself; urban system.
