SOC341H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Employer, Outsourcing, Racialization
Document Summary
The vosko reading main arguments and claims. The period before world war ii, until around the post-globalization ear (the 70s) the change point. P. needs to think beyond work precarious lives not just work. Multidimensional phenomenon that is linked to employment restructuring: break with the post world war ii/fordist (henry ford) situation with security a break with the previous structure (economic and political) in employment, historical analysis. Ft. p full time permanent: the legislation assumed a standard ser it was based on the factory model. Canadian standard vs. non-standard dichotomy: data was initially lumped together, but there is a big difference within the relme of non-standard work. Income / earnings: how you are piecing together an income through multiple jobs. Ft. p full time permanent: social assistance. Continuity through change: general, change from the pre wwii glory days, but a trend to precarity, gendered, no longer have a strict ender contract (male breadwinner female homemaker) but there is still gender inequality.
